Excerpt from Arthur in Shadow and SunshineAs he started off up the road, he decided to play, as he Often did with Frank, that he was a circus boy, without father or mother or any one belonging to him. He played that he had been stolen by a circus man, who treated him very cruelly, and he was now running away. He called himself Charley May lard, the name of a minstrel he had lately seen and greatly admired.Arthur strolled along the road for some distance, at last coming to a point from which he could see the railroad depot, a place always full of interest to him. He concluded to go on far enough to watch the cars as they passed.A train came puffing up just as he reached the platform. It suddenly oc cured to Arthur that it would be a fine thing to go to the city and meet his papa. He knew where his father's Office was, and hoped he would call him a real brave boy to have come all the way by himself.Without further consideration he jumped on board. Almost immediately the train was in motion. There were plenty of seats to be had. He slipped into one near the door. He began to feel frightened, and would gladly have re turned home had it been possible.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.