His Luckiest Year (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from His Luckiest Year The Saturday late sleep, in fact, has become a tradition. Ten o'clock on that particular day of the week is the hour of rising. The boy therefore - who, it should be said, was an alien on the street, having resided there only a few weeks - did not expect to meet or greet any of his new friends. But he was agreeably disappointed. Miss Alice O'Shea, residing in the neat two-story frame house which faces and blocks Pike Street, casting a chance look out of her window as she was engaged in the completion of her simple Saturday-morning toilet - much simpler, of course, than on the days when school was held - caught sight of the ruddy stranger. Alice, aged eleven, good-natured almost to a fault, liked the new boy. He was good-natured, too. Had he not presented her with an apple a few days ago, apropos of nothing? Had he not always greeted her with a smile? When she got up her birthday party she had settled that among her guests Bob Ryan should be the Abou Ben Adhem of the list, and lead all the rest. Some children there are who bask in smiles. They love the cheery face. Alice was just that sort of girl. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.