Billy, an orphaned boy from a Southern farm, arrives to live with his aunt, Miss Minerva, a prim and proper spinster in a small Southern town. With his friends Jimmy and Frances he argues Bible stories, invents disastrous games and gets into scrape after scrape, while the courtly Major quietly courts his aunt.
A small-town comedy of 1909, still funny in its child’s-eye logic, though its dialect portraits of Black characters are those of its time and place. Download the free EPUB.