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Title: The Very Small Person

Author: Annie Hamilton Donnell

Illustrator: Elizabeth Shippen Green

Release Date: July 13, 2009 [EBook #29404]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: That is where we play--I mean it is most pleasant there]

The
Very Small Person

By

Annie Hamilton Donnell

Author of "Rebecca Mary"

Illustrated by Elizabeth Shippen Green

New York and London

Harper & Brothers Publishers

MCMVI

Contents

I. Little Blue Overalls
II. The Boy
III. The Adopted
IV. Bobby Unwelcome
V. The Little Girl Who Should Have Been a Boy
VI. The Lie
VII. The Princess of Make-Believe
VIII. The Promise
IX. The Little Lover
X. The Child
XI. The Recompense

Illustrations

That is where we play--I mean it is most pleasant there
Little Blue Overalls climbed into a chair
'Fore I'd lean my chin on folks's gates and watch 'em!
She stayed there a week--a month--a year
It was worse than creepy, creaky noises
I can't play ... I'm being good
Murray had ... seen the vision, too
Elizabeth

Chapter I

Little Blue Overalls

Miss Salome's face was gently frowning as she wrote.

"Dear John," the letter began,--"It's all very well except one thing.
I wonder you didn't think of that. _I'm_ thinking of it most
of the time, and it takes away so much of the pleasure of the
rose-garden and the raspberry-bushes! Anne is in raptures over the
raspberry-bushes.

"Yes, the raspberries and the roses are all right. And I like the
stone-wall with the woodbine over it. (Good boy, you remembered that,
didn't you?) And the apple-tree and the horse-chestnut and the
elm--of course I like them.

"The house is just big enough and just small enough, and there's a
trunk-closet, as I stipulated. And Anne's room has a 'southern
exposure'--Anne's crazy spot is southern exposures. Mine's _it_.
Dear, dear, John, how could you forget _it!_ That everyt