Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
DICK TRAINING THE HORSE.
THE HAPPY HOME STORIES.
DILIGENT DICK;
OR,
THE YOUNG FARMER.
BY AUNT HATTIE.
[MADELINE LESLIE]
"Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall
stand before kings; he shall not stand before
mean men."—Paul.
BOSTON:
YOUNG & BARTLETT,
26 SCHOOL STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
HENRY A. YOUNG & CO.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
LIST
OF VOLUMES IN
THE HAPPY HOME STORIES.
FOR BOYS.
VOL. I. DILIGENT DICK.
VOL. II. COUSIN WILLIE.
VOL. III. LAZY ROBERT.
VOL. IV. LITTLE FRITZ.
VOL. V. THE NEW BUGGY.
VOL. VI. BERTIE AND HIS SISTERS.
LIST
OF VOLUMES IN
THE HAPPY HOME STORIES.
FOR GIRLS.
VOL. I. LITTLE FLYAWAY.
VOL. II. THE SPOILED PICTURE.
VOL. III. FLEDA'S CHILDHOOD.
VOL. IV. THE SINGING GIRL.
VOL. V. MOLLY AND THE WINE GLASS.
VOL. VI. THE TWINS.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VIII. DICK TAMING THE HORSE
CHAPTER IX. DICK AND THE DEACON
CHAPTER X. DICK'S VISIT TO MAINE
DILIGENT DICK.
CHAPTER I.
VISIT TO MR. JONES.
MR. JONES sat in his office on Pearl Street one of the hottestafternoons in August, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. His linen coatwas thrown on the back of his chair, his vest was loosened from top tobottom, a pitcher of iced water stood convenient to his hand; but hepuffed and panted continually.
"This is terrible!" he said to Mr. Follinsby a gentlemen sittingopposite, trying to lose the recollection of his discomfort in thecolumns of the newspaper, "Terrible! Thermometer ninety-eight in theshade. I pity the horses—"
"A boy to see you, Mr. Jones," said a clerk smili