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  • (In an "oral lesson in English," Penrod had been instructed to put this question in another form: "May I ask which of our public schools you attend?") "Me?

    Penrod 1914

  • (In an "oral lesson in English," Penrod had been instructed to put this question in another form: "May I ask which of our public schools you attend?") "Me?

    Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907

  • "What's the matter?" called Penrod from the hydrant, where he was filling a bucket.

    Short Stories of Various Types Various

  • With growing horror she recalled Penrod's long absence when he went to bring the hat.

    Penrod 1914

  • Doctor Thrope, the kind old clergyman who had baptized Penrod, came in for a moment to congratulate the boy, and had just moved away when it was Marjorie's turn, in the line of children, to speak to Penrod.

    Penrod 1914

  • Doctor Thrope, the kind old clergyman who had baptized Penrod, came in for a moment to congratulate the boy, and had just moved away when it was Marjorie's turn, in the line of children, to speak to Penrod.

    Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907

  • With growing horror she recalled Penrod's long absence when he went to bring the hat.

    Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907

  • When Mrs. Schofield, with dread in her heart, called Penrod into the house "to take his medicine" before lunch, he came briskly, and took it like a lamb!

    Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907

  • "What's the matter?" called Penrod from the hydrant, where he was filling a bucket.

    Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Like "Penrod" and "Seventeen," this book contains some remarkable phases of real boyhood and some of the best stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written.

    The Shield of Silence George [Illustrator] Loughridge

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