Excerpt from Holly and Mistletoe This summer a large party of Phillips' boys camped out on the beach. Rather young and rather foolish they were, and showed their ill-breeding by ridiculing the home and best friends of these four Morrill boys. Although most of them had' never been at the beach before, and all knew precious little of the management of a boat, they scorned any. Advice. They had espe cially snubbed Skipper Sam, and declared among themselves that if he were their uncle they would shut him up in a clam-shell. They had overheard the Morrills planning for an early fishing-trip, and thought it would be a bright idea to get ahead of them. Skip per Luce, an experienced boatman, offered to accom pany the young sailors; but they wanted his boat, not him. The man, having satisfied himself that there were rich fathers behind these confident fellows, gave up his Sparkle, though not without a sigh, lest he might never see her again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.