The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle

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Title: The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle
Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
Illustrator: Etheldred B. Barry
Release Date: December 3, 2005 [EBook #17214]
Language: English
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THE QUILT THAT JACK BUILT
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[Illustration: "HIS SERIOUS LITTLE FACE PUCKERED INTO AN ANXIOUS FROWN" (_See page 4_)]

Cosy Corner Series
THE QUILT THAT JACK BUILT
HOW HE WON THE BICYCLE
By Annie Fellows Johnston Author of "The Little Colonel" Series, "Big Brother," "The Story of Dago," "Joel: A Boy of Galilee," etc.
Illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry
Boston The Page Company Publishers

Copyright, 1904 BY L.C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED)
All rights reserved
Published October, 1904 Third Impression, March, 1910 Fourth Impression, February, 1911 Fifth Impression, March, 1914 Sixth impression, July, 1919
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TO THE BOY WHO HAS MADE ALL BOYHOOD DEAR TO ME-- MY ONLY SON =John=
[Illustration]

ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE "HIS SERIOUS LITTLE FACE PUCKERED INTO AN AN ANXIOUS FROWN" (_See page 4_) Frontispiece
"EVERY ONE WAS MAKING PATCHWORK" 6
"'DEAR AS IT IS TO ME, IT IS NOT SO DEAR AS THE KEEPING OF MY WORD'" 11
"THE FAMILIAR SQUARES OF FADED PATCHWORK MET HIS EYE" 19
"EACH BOY LONGED TO OWN IT" 30
"HOEING AWAY IN HIS GARDEN" 38
"'I STOPPED AND READ IT THROUGH TWICE'" 44
"'AND THAT KID JUST STARTED OFF ON FOOT'" 52

THE QUILT THAT JACK BUILT
HOW HE WON THE BICYCLE

THE QUILT THAT JACK BUILT
"Johnny _make a quilt!_" repeated Rob Marshall, with a shout of laughter. "I'd as soon expect to see a wild buffalo knitting mittens!"
"But you're not to speak of it outside the family, Rob," his mother hastened to say, "and you must not tease the little fellow. You older children have ways of earning pocket-money,--Rhoda with her painting, and you with your bent iron work, but Johnny hasn't had a cent of income all fall. You know when your father explained what a hard winter this would be, and said we must economize in every way possible, Johnny offered to give up the little amount I allowed him every week for chores. He has been doing his work ever since without pay. Now, he is wild to buy Todd Walters' rifle. He can get it for only three dollars, and I want him to have it if possible. He has cheerfully gone without so many things this fall. He followed me around the house all morning, begging me to think of some way in which he could earn the money, until, in desperation, I suggested that he piece a quilt