A Dear Little Girl'sSummer Holidays
AMY E. BLANCHARD
Whitman Publishing Co.
RACINE, WISCONSIN
Copyright 1911 by George W. Jacobs & Co.
A Dear Little Girl's Summer Holidays
Printed in 1924 byWestern Printing & Lithographing Co.
Racine, Wis.
Printed in U.S.A.
CONTENTS
| Chapter | Page | |
| I | THE INVITATION | 11 |
| II | THE ARRIVAL | 24 |
| III | MISS ELOISE | 39 |
| IV | THE PORCH PARTY | 54 |
| V | THE LITTLE BUNGALOW | 70 |
| VI | IN THE FOG | 84 |
| VII | A SAILING PARTY | 98 |
| VIII | THE FIRE | 114 |
| IX | TO BOSTON | 128 |
| X | THE BAZAR | 143 |
| XI | OLD NORTH CHURCH | 159 |
| XII | HOME AGAIN | 174 |
11A Dear Little Girl's SummerHolidays
THE INVITATION
It was a very warm morning in June. Edna andher friend Dorothy Evans were sitting under thetrees trying to keep cool. They both wore theirthinnest morning frocks and had pinned their hairup in little pug knots on the tops of their heads.They had their boxes of pieces and were trying tomake something suitable for their dolls to wear inthe hot weather.
"It's too sticky to sew," said Dorothy, throwingdown her work. "Marguerite will have to go withouta frock and sit around in her skin."
"You mean in her kid," returned Edna.
"Well, isn't kid skin?" asked Dorothy.
Edna laughed. "Why, yes, I suppose it is, andBen says we are kids, so our skin is kid skin. Oh,dear, it is hot. I wish I were a fish; it would be sonice to go slipping through the cool water."
12"Yes, but it wouldn't be so nice to be in a fryingpan sizzling over a fire."
"I feel almost as if I were doing that now. Therecomes th