Under the Lilacs (Esprios Classics)

Under the Lilacs is a children's novel by Louisa May Alcott first published in 1878. Bab and Betty two little girls are having a tea party with their dolls when an unknown dog appears and steals their cake. The girls find the dog Sancho along with his owner Ben Brown a run-away from the circus who is hiding in their play barn in a carriage. They discover that Ben is a horse master and when he is taken in by the Moss' they get him a job on a neighboring farm. It is there that he can work with horses and drive cows. Ben eventually finds out that his father who he loved dearly was dead. A neighbor Miss Celia helps him through his grief and he moves in with her and her brother Thornton who is fourteen. He has a job and a family and an opportunity for education.