Four orphaned children, Henry, Jess, Violet and little Benny, slip away from a strange village rather than be sent to a grandfather they fear. In the woods they find an abandoned railway boxcar and turn it into a home, furnishing it from the dump, damming a brook for a pool and earning money picking cherries.
This is the first 1924 text, before the familiar 1942 rewrite, a treat for fans of self-reliant children. Download the free EPUB.