Excerpt from Sunshine Beggars His fork fell with a bang. John jumped to his feet, and peered out through a curtained window not much larger than a big school geography. Mrs. Giddings immediately followed, moving more slowly, for the good Mrs. Giddings was not thin, and fitted her kindly, pink face into the square of a similar window, not six feet away. What they saw was a slender, childish figure. It wore a full short frock of black and white gingham, and over this had been drawn a sweater of dull red, which was scant as if from many washings. A red cap to match was hung to one Side of a bright blond head. The thin little legs were in white stockings; and rather worn shoes covered the swift flying feet. Beside the sobbing girl leaped and bounded a great collie dog. Both were racing down the high pier as though nothing could stop them. 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.