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The Project Gutenberg EBook of W. A. G.'s Tale, by Margaret TurnbullCopyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check thecopyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributingthis or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this ProjectGutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit theheader without written permission.Please read the "legal small print," and other information about theeBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included isimportant information about your specific rights and restrictions inhow the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make adonation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts****eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971*******These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!*****Title: W. A. G.'s TaleAuthor: Margaret TurnbullRelease Date: February, 2006 [EBook #9844][Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule][This file was first posted on October 23, 2003]Edition: 10Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ASCII*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK W. A. G.'S TALE ***Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Rebekah Inmanand the PG Distributed ProofreadersW.A.G.'S TALEEDITED BYMARGARET TURNBULLWITH ZOBZEE ILLUSTRATIONSBY THE AUTHOR
 
CONTENTSPREFACE BY AUTHORI. UNCLE BURT'S BILLYII. OUR HOUSEIII. OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORIV. ON THE TOWPATHV. ON THE DELAWAREVI. GEORGEVII. LEFT ALONEVIII. AT TURNER'SIX. THE WHITE TENTILLUSTRATIONSI STARTED TO GET BETTER AND WRITE THIS BOOK (p. 153) (colored)_Frontispiece_ From a drawing by M.L. KirkA ZOBZEEON THE BRIDGEHE JUMPED OUT AND TOOK A ROPE AND PULLED THE BOAT CLOSESHE WASHED AND I DRIEDHE TURNED AND WENT INTO THE WHITE STONE HOUSE, AND ALL THE CATS RANAFTER HIMHE SMOKED A PIPE, AND I PLAYED WITH ALL HIS TEDDY-CATSBRINGS HIM DOWN, PERSIMMONS AND ALLSO I TOOK MY FISHING-ROD AND FLICKED IT AT HIMNEVER YOU MIND, BABY DEAR, COME ONWHAT'S AN ABSENT-MINDED BEGGAR?HEY, ROBINSON CRUSOE, HERE'S YOUR MAN FRIDAYHE HAD TO TAKE A CAN-OPENER AND CUT AUNTY EDITH'S FOOT OUTWE ALL WORKED WITH HOSE AND EVERYTHINGAUNTY MAY GOT A HATCHET AND MADE A CHOP AT THE SNAKEI BELIEVED THEY HAD REALLY GONE AWAY, AND LEFT ME ALL ALONEI TOLD HIM ALL ABOUT AUNTY MAY
 
SLID DOWN WITHOUT A BIT OF NOISEI WOKE UP AND FOUND MYSELF LYING ON THE PORCHAND IT WAS UNCLE BURTW.A.G.'S TALEPREFACE BY THE AUTHORI have been sick. Now I am better the Doctor makes me lie in bed becauseof all that Anti-toxin he put in me, which weakens the heart. Anti-toxinisn't a lady, it's a medicine for diphtheria. Aunty May is a lady. Shereads me books and plays games with me. But I am tired of books writtenabout nature, and animals, and Indians, and fairies, and I wished outloud that somebody would write a book about a boy, just like me. Soto-day Aunty May brought me a big, thick blank book with red covers, andwith rings at the back to let me add more paper when I want to, and shetold me to write my own story, a little every day.[Illustration: "Zobzee"]So that's what I am going to do, and illustrate it with "Zobzees.""Zobzees" are thin dancing people--like this. I invented that name, anda country and a language for them, which only Aunty May and I know. ButI am not going to write my book in that. I am going to print it, likeother books, but draw "Zobzees" because they are easy; and if nobodyelse reads it except me and Uncle Burt when he comes home, it will befun for us, anyway.CHAPTER IUNCLE BURT'S BILLYMy name is William Ainsworth Gordon, and my initials spell W.A.G. Thatis why Aunty May and I call this book "W.A.G.'S TALE." If it was about adog it would be "Tail Wags." So it's true and a joke too.I am ten years old and my father and mother are in Heaven, and I haveonly Uncle Burt to take care of me. Uncle Burt isn't my real uncle, buthe was my father's chum when they were at West Point, and he promisedfather to take care of me. And he does, only he had to go to thePhilippines with his soldiers; so his sister, Aunty Edith, is takingcare of me until he comes back. Everybody else calls me William, but hecalls me "Billy," so I am the one this chapter is named after.
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