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Title: A Little Florida Lady

Author: Dorothy C. Paine

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A LITTLE FLORIDA LADY

by

DOROTHY C. PAINE

[Frontispiece: The Little Florida Lady]

Philadelphia
George W. Jacobs & Company
Copyright, 1903, by
George W. Jacobs & Company
Published, October, 1903

CONTENTS

I. THE JOURNEY TO FLORIDA
II. THE NEW HOME
III. BETH'S FIRST FISHING LESSON
IV. VISITING
V. WALKING ON STILTS
VI. HOUSE BUILDING
VII. BETH'S NEW PLAYFELLOW
VIII. LEARNING TO SWIM
IX. THE LITTLE DRESSMAKER
X. THE HORSE RACE
XI. DON MEETS A SAD FATE
XII. THE ARRIVAL OF DUKE
XIII. ANXIOUS HOURS
XIV. THE RESCUE

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Little Florida Lady . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

Beth Thought a Cotton Field a Pretty Sight [missing from book]

Beth's New Home [missing from book]

Maggie, a Typical Old-Time Mammy

Laura Corner in the Treasured Easter Hat

Harvey [missing from book]

"The Cutest Things Yon Ever Saw"

January with His Perpetual Laugh and Fiddle

The Darkies' Quarters

A Little Florida Lady

CHAPTER I

The Journey to Florida.

New York was in the throes of a blizzard. The wind howled and
shrieked, heralding the approach of March, the Wind King's month of the
year. Mrs. Davenport stood at a second story window of a room of the
Gilsey House, and looked down idly on the bleak thoroughfare. She was
a young-looking woman for her thirty-five years, and had an extremely
sweet face, denoting kindliness of heart.

The hall door opened, and Elizab