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Title: Little Miss Grouch
A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's
Maiden Transatlantic Voyage

Author: Samuel Hopkins Adams

Illustrator: R. M. Crosby

Release Date: August 1, 2007 [EBook #22196]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "GOOD-NIGHT," SHE SAID, "AND--THANK YOU"]

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LITTLE MISS GROUCH

A Narrative Based Upon The
Private Log Of
Alexander Forsyth Smith's
Maiden Transatlantic
Voyage

By
Samuel Hopkins Adams

With Illustrations by R. M. Crosby

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1915

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COPYRIGHT, 1914 AND 1915, BY THE BUTTERICK PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published September 1915

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ILLUSTRATIONS

"Good-night," she said, "and--thank you"(page 129) Frontispiece

"Aren't you going to speak to me?" 38

Surprise held the Tyro's tongue in leash 52

"Oh, look at that adorable baby!" 74

"Couldn't you lend me five dollars?" 112

Her knight keeping watch over her 144

The Tyro curled his legs under him 166

"You've come through, my boy" 206

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LITTLE MISS GROUCH

I

First day out.
Weather horrible, uncertain and squally, but interesting
Developments promised Feel fine.

SMITH'S LOG.

Several tugs were persuasively nudging the Clan Macgregor out from her
pier. Beside th