THE BASKET BOY. Frank Smith is a little boy, so lame from rheumatism that hecannot walk without crutches. He makes baskets with strips ofwhite oak, and sells them to his neighbors. When he has made a great many, his father lends him his buggyand horse to take his baskets around, and so he is called…
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