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Title: Patty and Azalea

Author: Carolyn Wells

Release Date: December 14, 2004 [EBook #14352]

Language: English

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PATTY AND AZALEA

BY CAROLYN WELLS

Author of The Patty Books, The Marjorie Books, etc.

1919

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED WITH LOVING GOOD WISHES TO PRISCILLA KERLEY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I WISTARIA PORCH
II GUESTS ARRIVE
III BETTY GALE
IV A NEW RELATIVE
V THAT AWFUL AZALEA
VI TABLE MANNERS
VII MYSTERIOUS CALLERS
VIII MISSING
IX VANITY FAIR
X INQUIRIES
XI THE SAMPLER
XII AZALEA'S CHANCE
XIII "STAR OF THE WEST"
XIV AT THE PICTURE PLAY
XV SOME RECORDS
XVI AZALEA'S STORY
XVII PHILIP'S REQUEST
XVIII PHILIP'S BROWNIE

PATTY AND AZALEA

CHAPTER I

WISTARIA PORCH

"Oh, Little Billee! Come quick, for goodness' sake! The baby's choking!"

Patty was in the sun parlour, her arms full of a fluttering bundle
of lace and linen, and her blue eyes wide with dismay at her small
daughter's facial contortions.

"Only with laughter," Bill reassured her after a quick glance at the
restless infant. "Give her to me."

The baby nestled comfortably in his big, powerful arms, and Patty sat
back in her chair and watched them both.

"What a pleasure," she said, complacently, "to be wife and mother to two
such fine specimens of humanity! She grows more and more like you every
day, Little Billee."

"Well, if this yellow fuzz of a head and this pinky peach of a face
is like anybody in the world except Patty Farnsworth, I'll give up!
Why, she's the image of you,--except when she makes these grotesque
grimaces,--like a Chinese Joss."

"Stop it! You shan't call my baby names! She's a booful-poofle! She's a
hunny-bunny! She's her mudder's pressus girly-wirly,--so she wuz