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Title: Clover

Author: Susan Coolidge

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CLOVER

by

SUSAN COOLIDGE

Author of "What Katy Did," "Mischief's Thanksgiving,"
"Nine Little Goslings," etc.

Illustrated by JESSIE McDERMOT

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
Alfred Mudge & Son, Inc., Printers,
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

1907

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. A TALK ON THE DOORSTEPS

II. THE DAY OF HAPPY LETTERS

III. THE FIRST WEDDING IN THE FAMILY

IV. TWO LONG YEARS IN ONE SHORT CHAPTER

V. CAR FORTY-SEVEN

VI. ST. HELEN'S

VII. MAKING ACQUAINTANCE

VIII. HIGH VALLEY

IX. OVER A PASS

X. NO. 13 PIUTE STREET

XI. THE LAST OF THE CLOVER-LEAVES

CHAPTER I.

A TALK ON THE DOORSTEPS.

It was one of those afternoons in late April which are as mild and balmy
as any June day. The air was full of the chirps and twitters of
nest-building birds, and of sweet indefinable odors from half-developed
leaf-buds and cherry and pear blossoms. The wisterias overhead were
thickly starred with pointed pearl-colored sacs, growing purpler with each
hour, which would be flowers before long; the hedges were quickening into
life, the long pensile willow-boughs and the honey-locusts hung in a mist
of fine green against the sky, and delicious smells came with every puff
of wind from the bed of white violets under the parlor windows.

Katy and Clover Carr, sitting with their sewing on the door-steps, drew in
with every breath the sense of spring. Who does not know the
delightfu