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Title: How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty

Author: Charlotte B. Herr

Illustrator: Frances Beem

Release Date: September 7, 2006 [EBook #19197]

Language: English

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[Illustration]

[Illustration]

HOW FRECKLE FROG
MADE HERSELF
PRETTY

_By_
CHARLOTTE B. HERR

_Designs_
FRANCES BEEM

Published in the Shop of
P. F. VOLLAND & CO.
CHICAGO U.S.A.

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THIS LITTLE STORY IS TOLD
AND THE LITTLE PICTURES
WERE DRAWN FOR A GOOD
LITTLE CHILD NAMED

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COPYRIGHT 1913
P F. VOLLAND & CO
CHICAGO, U. S. A.

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HOW FRECKLE FROG MADE HERSELF PRETTY

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Marian, and she
had a doll called Big Mary. Marian loved Big Mary, and meant to
be very good to her. But sometimes she was not.

Santa Claus had brought Big Mary one snowy Christmas night, and
he had brought also a great many pretty clothes for her to wear.
There were three dresses, a warm red one for winter, and a white
one, very thin, for summer, and still another, of beautiful blue
silk with lace on it, for best.

Then, also, there were little skirts, and tiny stockings, and
pretty little shoes with shiny buckles and real heels, and there
was a pink parasol, and, best of all, a dear little muff, made of
soft white fur, t