BUDDY JIM
By ELIZABETH GORDON
Pictures by JOHN RAE
Published by
THE P.F. VOLLAND COMPANY
JOLIET, ILLINOIS
NEW YORK BOSTON
Copyright, 1922
P. F. Volland Company
Chicago, U.S.A.
All rights reserved
Copyright Great Britain, 1922
Printed in U.S.A.
Twenty-third Edition
Foreword
Out in the Park one day, children, I met a little boy not bigger thanyou are, who told me that he liked stories about a boy and a dog andthe things they did together.
He said that it must be a real boy and a real dog, and there mustbe other animals in the story, not great, big, fierce ones, but justneighborly ones—animals a boy might, perhaps, meet when he went forwalks in the woods—and take pictures of and get to know.
So this is the story of the way a real boy and a real dog spenttheir first summer in the real country; and the fun they had together.
Buddy Jim and old Dog Sandy are waiting for us over on the front page.
Your very own,
Elizabeth Gordon
Said little Buddy Jim.
And all his little play-mates said,
"How dull 'twill be, for him."
"It's like a great, big, vacant lot,
Just land and air and sky!"
"No boys! No games! Oh dear!" said Jim,
"Don't want to say Goodbye!"
BUT he had to say "Goodbye," because all the otherboys' Mothers were calling them in to go to bed, andas Buddy Jim and his family were going to get anearly start for their tri