Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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a pair of grays stoppedin front of the flower-gatherers. Well, well, said a hearty voice, and therewere the General and his wife! They hadcalled for Jimmy and his mother, they said,and had been directed to the wooded hill. Get in, get in, commanded the General;and, in spite of the Little Mothers hesitancyand timid protests, she was helped up besidethe Generals wife by the footman, while Jimmyhopped in beside -the General, and away theywent over the hard white road. The General was in a gay mood. Well, my boy, have you found your goldenegg ? he asked Jimmy. No, sir, said Jimmy, gravely; not yet. I9°4-) THE GENERALS EASTER BOX. 487 Too bad, too bad, said the old gentleman, The General leaned back and laughed andwhile he shifted a white box that was on the seat laughed until he was red in the face; but Jimmy-between himself and Jimmy to the other side. could see nothing to laugh at, so he merely You re quite sure, are you, that you could smiled politely, and wondered what the joke was.
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AID JIMMY, AND SAT DOWN ON THE STEP, BREATHLESS WITH JOY. (SEE PAGE 488.) only get it from a goose ? he asked later. At last they reached Jimmys home, and the Get what, sir? said Jimmy, whose eyes General helped the Little Mother out. As he were on the gay crowds that thronged the did so he handed her a white box. Jimmy sidewalks. was busy watching the gray horses, and saw The egg, said the General. nothing else. Oh — yes, sir, replied Jimmy, with a smile. For the boy, whispered the General. 488 THE GENERALS EASTER BOX. The Little Mother shook her head doubt-fully. Bless you, madam, cried the General,testily, I have a boy of my own — if he is sixfeet two in his stockings. Then, in a softertone, I beg of you to take it, madam; it willplease an old man and give the boy a start. So when good-by had been said, andJimmy stood looking after the carriage andthe prancing grays, the Little Mother put thewhite box in his hand. Jimmy opened it, and there on a nest ofwhite cotton was an egg.

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