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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...best clothes, and took the handkerchief that I am hemming for Blanche, and carried them out into the arbor. Then I asked Katie for a lunch. She gave me some beautiful jumbles and a cranberry tart; then I got a banana and an orange off the sideboard--just what I would eat for dessert if I were there to dinner, and I carried them all out to the arbor. I thought I would better put on my thickest coat and cap, because it wasn't so very warm. I put the dolls up on one seat, in a row, and gave them some bits of jumble to keep them quiet, while I sewed on my handkerchief. It was very pleasant there, because the sun shone in so bright, and the wind didn't blow much that day. When I had almost finished the handkerchief, I was hungry, and I ate all my luncheon. Then the sun made me shut my eyes, and I suppose I went to sleep; for the next thing I knew, I was lying on the seat, near which were papa and mamma, looking at me. "Why, Chessie, child, what are you doing out here?" said mamma. When I told them how I was keeping Arbor Day, they laughed; but mamma cuddled me up in her arms, and hurried me off into the house, because she was afraid I had taken cold. It was the middle of the afternoon, and I had been asleep all that time. They had been looking everywhere for me. Papa said Jimmie was a naughty boy to tell me such stuff. Then he told me that on Arbor Day we must plant trees, and that we need not sit in the arbor at all. He says I may plant a tree this afternoon, because it is so long to wait till next Arbor Day. I suppose I shall have to forgive Jimmie, because he is my cousin, and because he lets me wind up his engine and take my dolls to ride on his railway train. Mamma says I ought to forgive him, because it is right to forgive everybody. naughty cous...
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