Captain Horace.

LITTLE PRUDY SERIES.

CAPTAIN HORACE.

BY

SOPHIE MAY.

BOSTON 1893
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
10 MILK STREET NEXT "THE OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE"

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
LEE & SHEPARD,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court
of the District of Massachusetts.

Copyright, 1892, by Rebecca S. Clarke.

Little Prudy's Captain Horace.

PREFACE.

You wide-awake little boys, who make whistles of willow, and go fishingand training,—Horace is very much like you, I suppose. He is by nomeans perfect, but he is brave and kind, and scorns a lie. I hope youand he will shake hands and be friends.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Making Candy, 5

II. Camping Out, 15

III. Taking a Journey, 33

IV. At Grandpa Parlin's, 49

V. Captain of a Company, 68

VI. Susy and Prudy, 87

VII. In the Woods, 99

VIII. Captain Clifford, 117

IX. The Blue Book, 128

X. Trying to get rich, 141

XI. The Little Indian, 149

XII. A Pleasant Surprise, 167

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