The August Stories Author:Jacob Abbott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Original Publisher: Strahan Subjects: Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get... more » free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER HI. Plans and Arrangements, their way home from the stables, Mr. Grant stopped at a book store and bought a gazetteer of New England, and also a traveling map, this last being folded and enclosed in a case, so that it could be carried in the pocket. The bookseller tied up the two together and gave them to the boys to carry with them to Tarrytown, where they were to consult them, and study out the plan of their route. Mr. Grant told the boys moreover that he would have saddles made to fit the horses, and a valise for each boy, to be strapped behind the saddle. The valises were to contain clothes, and such other things as the boys supposed they might require by the way. " You must plan every thing yourselves, boys," said he. " I can't help you at all. If you forget any thing you will have to do without it until you can pick it up somewhere as you go on. I will have the saddles and valises made next week, and then Mr. Martin will send the horses, all equiped, up to Tarrytown on Saturday, and you can set out on Monday morning of the week after, if you get ready. "And now you had better think what you will want, and if there is anything that you will have to buy in New York, you can buy it today and take it up with you when you go home to-night." The carriage about this time arrived at the counting room, and Mr. Grant took the boys in with him, and gave August a supply of money ' for such purchases as they might require. He gave him ten dollars in New York city bills. "And how much money shall you wish to...« less