THE BOX-CAR CHILDREN

By Gertrude Chandler Warner

Author of "Star Stories For Little Folks" and, with Frances Warner, of"Life's Minor Collisions"

With pictures by
Dorothy Lake Gregory

RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
CHICAGO NEW YORK

Copyright, 1924, by
Rand McNally & Company

[Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence thatthe U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

THE CONTENTS

The Flight	9
The Second Night	18
Shelter	27
A New Home	34
Housekeeping	43
Earning A Living	51
At Home	61
Building The Dam	71
Cherry Picking	81
The Race	88
More Education	96
Ginseng	105
Trouble	111
Caught	120
A New Grandfather	127
A United Family	134
Safe	142

Jess shut the door with as much care as she had opened it

THE FLIGHT

About seven o'clock one hot summer evening a strange family moved intothe little village of Middlesex. Nobody knew where they came from, orwho they were. But the neighbor

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