Produced by David Edwards, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) [Illustration: LITTLE GRANDFATHER.] [Illustration: LITTLE GRANDFATHER. ILLUSTRATED LEE & SHEPARD, BOSTON] LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES. LITTLE GRANDFATHER. BY SOPHIE MAY, AUTHOR OF "LITTLE PRUDY STORIES," "DOTTY DIMPLE STORIES," "THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER." ETC. _ILLUSTRATED._ BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. NEW YORK: LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM. 1874. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, BY LEE AND SHEPARD, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, No. 19 Spring Lane. DEDICATION. TO _LITTLE MARY TOBEY._ _LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES._ TO BE COMPLETED IN SIX VOLS. 1. LITTLE FOLKS ASTRAY. 2. PRUDY KEEPING HOUSE. 3. AUNT MADGE'S STORY. 4. LITTLE GRANDMOTHER. 5. LITTLE GRANDFATHER. 6. (In preparation.) CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE. I. THE PARLINS. 9 II. WALKING IN SLEEP. 21 III. THE TRUNDLE-BED. 41 IV. THE OX-MONEY. 53 V. THE BOY THAT WORE HOME THE MEDAL. 63 VI. THE BOY THAT MEANT TO MIND HIS MOTHER. 80 VII. THE BOY THAT CHEATED. 97 VIII. THE "NEVER-GIVE-UPS." 113 IX. THE MUSTER. 134 X. GOING TO SEA. 153 XI. TO THE FORKS. 173 XII. "I HA'E NAEBODY NOW." 197 XIII. CONCLUSION. 215 LITTLE GRANDFATHER. CHAPTER I. THE PARLINS. He did look so funny when they first put him into "pocket-clothes!" His green "breeches" were so tight that they made you think of two pods of marrow-fat peas, only they were topped off with a pair of "rocco" shoes, as red as bell-peppers. He had silver buckles on his shoes, and brass buttons on his green jacket, which was fastened at the back. He had a white collar about his neck as large as a small cape, and finished off around the edge with a ruffle. His mother had snipped his dark locks so they needn't look so much like a girl's; and then with his brown fur hat on, which his grandfather Cheever had sent from Boston, he looked in the glass and smiled at himself. Do you wonder he smiled? He had bright black eyes, red cheeks, and a rich, dark skin. He was a handsome little creature; but when he was tanned, his brother Stephen called him a "Pawnee Indian," which was a heavy joke, and sank deeper into Willy's tender soul than Stephen suspected.