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Title: Aunt Madge's Story

Author: Sophie May

Release Date: May 6, 2008 [EBook #25356]

Language: English

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_LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES._

AUNT MADGE'S STORY.

BY

SOPHIE MAY,

AUTHOR OF "LITTLE PRUDY STORIES," "DOTTY DIMPLE STORIES," ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED._

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.

NEW YORK:
LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.
1874.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,
BY LEE AND SHEPARD,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,
No. 19 Spring Lane.

_LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES._

TO BE COMPLETED IN SIX VOLS.

1. LITTLE FOLKS ASTRAY.

2. PRUDY KEEPING HOUSE.

3. AUNT MADGE'S STORY.

(Others in preparation.)

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. TOTTY-WAX. 9

II. THE LADY CHILD. 20

III. THE BLUE PARASOL. 38

IV. LIZE JANE. 55

V. THE PARTY. 69

VI. THE PATCHWORK SCHOOL. 87

VII. THE LITTLE LIE-GIRL. 108

VIII. THE TANSY CHEESE. 122

IX. "WAXERATION." 140

X. "THE CHILD'S ALIVE." 159

XI. THE FIRST CAR RIDE. 174

XII. BETTER THAN KITTENS. 188

XIII. GOOD BY. 199

AUNT MADGE'S STORY.

CHAPTER I.

TOTTY-WAX.

Here you sit, Horace, Prudy, Dotty, and Flyaway, all waiting for a
story. H