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Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island


Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island
Mabel C. Hawley
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CHAPTER I. THE NEW CAR
CHAPTER II. BOBBY HAS A PLAN
CHAPTER III. HOW THE PLAN WORKED
CHAPTER IV. TWADDLES' GRASSHOPPER
CHAPTER V. APPLE TREE ISLAND
CHAPTER VI. ERRANDS IN TOWN
CHAPTER VII. BEGINNING THE JOURNEY
CHAPTER VIII. OLD BROOKSIDE FRIENDS
CHAPTER IX. ON THE WAY AGAIN
CHAPTER X. ON THE ISLAND
CHAPTER XI. A DAMP ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XII. SUNNY SUMMER DAYS
CHAPTER XIII. A SIGNAL FOR HELP
CHAPTER XIV. THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XV. BOBBY'S GREAT DISCOVERY


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CHAPTER I. THE NEW CAR
Half of a small boy protruded from the oven, his stout tan shoes waving
convulsively.
"Twaddles!" Nora coming into her orderly kitchen was amazed. "Glory be, child,
are you making toast of yourself?"
The shoes gave a final wriggle and Twaddles deftly backed out of the oven,
turning to show a flushed face and a pair of dark, dancing eyes.
"What are ye doing?" insisted Norah curiously. "The sponge cake was baked and
put away hours ago."
"Oh, I don't want any of your sponge cake," Twaddles assured her loftily,
forgetting, perhaps, the many times he had hung around the kitchen door during
Norah's baking and teased for "just one bite." "I'm life-saving, Norah."
"You're what?" asked Norah incredulously.
Twaddles sat down comfortably on the stone hearth before the old- fashioned coal
range and began to clean caked mud from the soles of his shoes.
"It's a robin," he explained. "A sick robin, Norah. I found him on the grass,
and he was too cold and wet to fly. Mother used to put 'em in the oven when she
was a little girl and that made 'em all well again."
"You'll scorch him," said Norah, stooping down to look. "That oven is nearly hot
enough to bake biscuit in, Twaddles. Wait, I'll wrap your robin up in cotton and
we'll put him on the shelf warmer; that's about the temperature he needs."
Twaddles, assured of expert attention for his patient, scrambled to his feet.