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Title: Patty Blossom

Author: Carolyn Wells

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Language: English

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PATTY BLOSSOM

by

CAROLYN WELLS

Author of
The Patty Books, The Marjorie Books,
Two Little Women Series, etc.

New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1927

Copyright, 1917
by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I SAM BLANEY
II A STUDIO PARTY
III PHILIP OBJECTS
IV PATTY STAYS LATE
V AT RED CHIMNEYS
VI A SOCIETY CIRCUS
VII A CLEVER PLAN
VIII A REAL POEM
IX A SHOWER
X MONA'S WEDDING
XI THE CITY STUDIO
XII AN ODD DINNER PARTY
XIII ELISE AND PATTY
XIV PATTY'S DANCE
XV THE CHRISTMAS PARTY
XVI A STOLEN POEM
XVII PATTY'S DECISION
XVIII THE HOUSE SALE
XIX PATTY RUNAWAY
XX BLOSSOM GIRL

Patty Blossom

CHAPTER I

SAM BLANEY

"Patty, Patty, pit-a-pat,
Grinning like a Chessy Cat,

if you don't stop looking so everlasting cheerful, I'll throw something
at you!"

"Throw," returned Patty, as her grin perceptibly and purposely widened
to the full extent of her scarlet lips.

"All right!" and Elise threw a sofa cushion and another and another,
following them up with a knitted afghan, a silk slumber robe, and then
beginning on a pile of newspapers.

Patty, who was lounging on a broad divan, protected her face with a
down pillow, and contentedly endured the avalanche.

Then, as the enemy's stock of missiles gave out, she sat up, flinging
the impedimenta right and left, and her smiling face and tumbled curls
triumphantly braved further assault.

"It's snowing like the very dickens," Elise declared, disconsolately.

"I don't see any snow," and Patty shut her blue eyes tight.

"Of course you don't, you old goose! If a roaring Bengal tiger stood
in front of you, with full intent of eating you at once, you'd shut
your eyes and say, 'There isn't any tiger there.' That is, if you had
time to