JACK & JILL. Louisa May Alcott

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Название JACK & JILL
Автор произведения Louisa May Alcott
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       Louisa May Alcott

      JACK & JILL

      A Village Story (Children's Classic)

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      2017 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-7583-969-5

       Chapter I. The Catastrophe

       Chapter II. Two Penitents

       Chapter III. Ward No. 1

       Chapter IV. Ward No. 2.

       Chapter V. Secrets

       Chapter VI. Surprises

       Chapter VII. Jill's Mission

       Chapter VIII. Merry and Molly

       Chapter IX. The Debating Club

       Chapter X. The Dramatic Club

       Chapter XI. "Down Brakes"

       Chapter XII. The Twenty-Second of February

       Chapter XIII. Jack Has a Mystery

       Chapter XIV. And Jill Finds It Out

       Chapter XV. Saint Lucy

       Chapter XVI. Up at Merry's

       Chapter XVII. Down at Molly's

       Chapter XVIII. May Baskets

       Chapter XIX. Good Templars

       Chapter XX. A Sweet Memory

       Chapter XXI. Pebbly Beach

       Chapter XXII. A Happy Day

       Chapter XXIII. Cattle Show

       Chapter XXIV. Down the River

       JACK AND JILL

      Jack and Jill went up the hill

      To coast with fun and laughter;

      Jack fell down and broke his crown,

      And Jill came tumbling after.

      Chapter I. The Catastrophe

       Table of Contents

      "Clear the lulla!" was the general cry on a bright December afternoon, when all the boys and girls of Harmony Village were out enjoying the first good snow of the season. Up and down three long coasts they went as fast as legs and sleds could carry them. One smooth path led into the meadow, and here the little folk congregated; one swept across the pond, where skaters were darting about like water-bugs; and the third, from the very top of the steep hill, ended abruptly at a rail fence on the high bank above the road. There was a group of lads and lasses sitting or leaning on this fence to rest after an exciting race, and, as they reposed, they amused themselves with criticising their mates, still absorbed in this most delightful of out-door sports.

      "Here comes Frank Minot, looking as solemn as a judge," cried one, as a tall fellow of sixteen spun by, with a set look about the mouth and a keen sparkle of the eyes, fixed on the distant goal with a do-or-die expression.

      "Here's Molly Loo

      And little Boo!"

      sang out another; and down came a girl with flying hair, carrying a small boy behind her, so fat that his short legs stuck out from the sides, and his round face looked over her shoulder like a full moon.

      "There's Gus Burton; doesn't he go it?" and such a very long boy whizzed by, that it looked almost as if his heels were at the top of the hill when his head was at the bottom!

      "Hurrah for Ed Devlin!" and a general shout greeted a sweet-faced lad, with a laugh on his lips, a fine color on his brown cheek, and a gay word for every girl he passed.

      "Laura and Lotty keep to the safe coast into the meadow, and Molly Loo is the only girl that dares to try this long one to the pond. I wouldn't for the world; the ice can't be strong yet, though it is cold enough to freeze one's nose off," said a timid damsel, who sat hugging a post and screaming whenever a mischievous lad shook the fence.

      "No, she isn't; here's Jack and Jill going like fury."

      "Clear the track

      For jolly Jack!"

      sang the boys, who had rhymes and nicknames for nearly every one.

      Down came a gay red sled, bearing a boy who seemed all smile and sunshine, so white were his teeth, so golden was his hair, so bright and happy his whole air. Behind him clung a little gypsy of a girl, with black eyes and hair, cheeks as red as her hood, and a face full of fun and sparkle, as she waved Jack's blue tippet like a banner with one hand, and held on with the other.

      "Jill goes wherever Jack does, and he lets her. He's such a good-natured chap, he can't say 'No.'"

      "To a girl," slyly added one of the boys, who had wished to borrow the red sled, and had been politely refused because Jill wanted it.

      "He's the nicest boy in the world, for he never gets mad," said the timid young lady, recalling the many times Jack had shielded her from the terrors which beset her path to school, in the shape of cows, dogs, and boys who made faces and called her "'Fraid-cat."

      "He doesn't dare to get mad with Jill, for she'd take his head off in two minutes if he did," growled Joe Flint, still smarting from the rebuke Jill had given him for robbing the little ones of their safe coast because he fancied it.