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Title: Molly Make-Believe

Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Illustrator: Walter Tittle

Release Date: June 23, 2006 [EBook #18665]

Language: English

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[Illustration: The so-called delicious, intangible joke]

Molly

Make-Believe

By

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

With Illustrations by

Walter Tittle

New York

The Century Co.

1911

Copyright, 1910, by

THE CENTURY CO.

* * * * *

TO

MY SILENT PARTNER

* * * * *

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The so-called delicious, intangible joke _Frontispiece_

"Good enough!" he chuckled

Every girl like Cornelia had to go South sometime between November and
March

An elderly dame

A much-freckled messenger-boy appeared dragging an exceedingly
obstreperous fox-terrier

"Well I'll be hanged," growled Stanton, "if I'm going to be strung by
any boy!"

Some poor old worn-out story-writer

"Maybe she is--'colored,'" he volunteered at last

"Oh! Don't I look--gorgeous!" she stammered

"What?" cried Stanton, plunging forward in his chair

Cornelia's mother answered this time

He unbuckled the straps of his suitcase and turned the cover backward on
the floor

"Are you a good boy?" she asked

"It's only Carl," he said

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MOLLY MAKE-BELIEVE

I

The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it--a dingy
whirl at the window; a smoky gust through the fireplace; a shadow
black as a bear's cave under the table. Nothing in all