Beechnut Author:Jacob Abbott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Beechnut's great picture of Paris. Chapter II. The Great Black Bear. There was another promise that Beechnut had made to Phonny and Malleville besides the... more » one in relation to the wooden-horse, which for a long time he postponed fulfilling. It was the promise to relate to them the incidents of his early life in Paris, and the circumstances by which his father had been led to come to America. The reason why this story had been so long postponed was, that Beechnut said it could not be well understood without having his picture of Paris at hand, to look at the places which he should refer to in his story. Beechnut had a large and handsome picture of Paris hanging up in his room. He had brought it with him from Paris, when he came to America, together with a great many other similar treasures. These things had all been left at Montreal, when Beechnut and his father came across through the woods from Canada to the United States, but Beechnut had sent for them afterwards, and had safely received them. By Beechnut's room. His pictures and treasures. means of these treasures Beechnut had contrived to make his room in Mrs. Henry's house a very attractive place; and among the various objects of interest and curiosity which he had collected there, not the least alluring was his large colored picture of Paris which hung up in the room in a conspicuous position. This was the picture that he referred to as essential to a right understanding of the story of his early life. Although Beechnut's room was, as we have said, a very attractive place, still he spent very little time in it, being occupied generally during all the hours of every day in his work about the house and farm. There were the evening hours, it is true, but during the summer the evenings were very short, and during t...« less