Best Selling Books by Josephine Lawrence

Louise and I have been to Miss Graham''s for three years, and I don''t see why it isn''t good enough for Esther till she is as old as we are. But you know she always wants to do everything we do. Oh, Betty, wouldn''t it be too lovely for words if you should come to boarding school with us? Please ask your uncle, do. You can''t spend the winter in Oklahoma, can you? And if you are going to school I know you would like the one we''re going to. It is so highly recommended, and Mother personally knows the principal. I tell you-I''ll see that a catalogue is sent to you, and you show it to your uncle. Libbie thinks maybe she will go.''

THE MORRISONS "Brother," said Mother Morrison, "you haven''t touched your glass of milk. Hurry now, and drink it before we leave the table." Brother''s big brown eyes turned from his knife, which he had been playing was a bridge from the salt cellar to the egg cup, toward the tumbler of milk standing beside his plate. "I don''t have to drink milk this morning, Mother," he assured her confidently. "Honestly I don''t. It''s raining so hard that we can''t go outdoors and grow, anyway." Louise, his older sister, said sharply.

Betty Gordon, a recently-orphaned girl, becomes the ward of her uncle, Dick Gordon. Betty loves Uncle Dick from the moment that she meets him, but he must travel on business. Uncle Dick arranges for Betty to spend the summer at Bramble Farm, where his old school friend, Agatha Peabody, lives with her husband. While Betty hates to be separated from her uncle, she fantasizes about the good times she will have at Bramble Farm.Betty finds that Bramble Farm is a very miserable place. Mr. Peabody is a mean old miser, and Mrs. Peabody is crushed in spirit and unable to speak up for herself. Mr. Peabody forces his wife and employees to eat skimpy meals. He refuses to allow his wife to make any decisions, and Mrs. Peabody is treated almost like a slave. The one bright spot is Betty''s new friend, Bob Henderson, who is a poorhouse boy who lives on the farm.

Linda Lane has many adventures, and some problems too, while helping to care for the four active and often vexing Pine children at their country home in California.

"This box contains four wonder books for little tots"--Front cover of box.