Jemmy had been plucked from the streets to serve as whipping boy to the arrogant and spiteful Prince Brat. ‘Ain’t I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What’s the prince done now? It was forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. When this family pas*ses through town in their brightly painted wagon, anything can happen even the capture of a notorious bandit, the Badlands Kid! Here is the Newbery Medalist’s first book for children, reissued for a new generation of readers.Ī shout comes echoing up the stairway ‘Fetch The Whipping Boy!’ A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep. Mysterious & Company, otherwise known as the Hackett family, is a traveling magic show making its way across the country toward California. But the frontier has tricks of its own up its sleeve, and the magicians find themselves in hairbreadth escapes and nose to nose encounters with villains galore including the notorious and short tempered Badlands Kid. The wonder workers are heading for California, where Pa intends to retire the show so that the kids can go to school. Follow the adventures and high comedy of this family of magicians traveling in a show wagon through the Old West. Mysterious Pa himself make a cow lay an egg and a chicken give milk. Watch the head in the box move its lips and talk that’s Paul behind the whiskers. A magic show is in town! See Jane float through the air.
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