by Sophie May
SPECIMEN CUT TO "LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES."
PRUDY KEEPING HOUSE.]
"'My, what a fascinating creature,' said the Man in the Moon, making aneye-glass with his thumb and fore-finger, and gazing at the ladyboarder. 'Are you a widow woman?'"
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LITTLE GRANDMOTHER.
"Grandmother Parlen when a little girl is the subject. Of course thatwas ever so long ago, when there were no lucifer matches, and steel andtinder were used to light fires; when soda and saleratus had never beenheard of, but people made their pearl ash by soaking burnt crackers inwater; when the dressmaker and the tailor and the shoemaker went fromhouse to house twice a year to make the dresses and coats of thefamily."--_Transcript_.
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LITTLE GRANDFATHER.
"The story of Grandfather Parlen's little boy life, of the days of kneebreeches and cocked hats, full of odd incidents, queer and quaintsayings, and the customs of 'ye olden time.' These stories of SOPHIEMAY'S are so charmingly written that older folks may well amusethemselves by reading them. The same warm sympathy with childhood, theearnest naturalness, the novel charm of the preceding volumes will befound in this."--_Christian Messenger_.
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MISS THISTLEDOWN.
"One of the queerest of the Prudy family. Read the chapter heads and youwill see just how much fun there must be in it. 'Fly's Heart,' 'Taking aNap,' 'Going to the Fair,' 'The Dimple Dot,' 'The Hole in the Home,''The Little Bachelor,' 'Fly's Bluebeard,' 'Playing Mamma,' 'ButterSpots,' 'Polly's Secret,' 'The Snow Man,' 'The Owl and theHumming-bird,' 'Tales of Hunting Deer,' and 'The Parlen Patchwork.'"
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ILLUSTRATION TO "LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES"
LITTLE GRANDMOTHER.]
"She played in the old garret, with Dr. Moses to attend her dolls whenthey were sick."
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SIX VOLUMES: PER VOLUME, 75 CENTS.]
FLAXIE FRIZZLE. TWIN COUSINS. DOCTOR PAPA. FLAXIE'S KITTYLEEN. LITTLE PITCHERS. FLAXIE GROWING UP. * * * * *
ILLUSTRATION TO "FLAXIE FRIZZLE SERIES."
"The next day it rained so hard 'the water couldn't catch its breath'but the Little Pitchers were eager to go to school."
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FLAXIE FRIZZLE.
"FLAXIE FRIZZLE is the successor of the Dotty Dimple, LittlePrudy, Flyaway, and the other charming child creations of thatinimitable writer for children, SOPHIE MAY. There never was ahealthy, fun-loving child born into this world that, at one stage ofanother of its growth, wouldn't be entertained with SOPHIEMAY'S books. For that matter, it is not safe for older folks tolook into them, unless they intend to read them through. FLAXIEFRIZZLE will be found as bright and pleasant reading as theothers."--_Boston Journal_.
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FLAXIE'S DOCTOR PAPA
"SOPHIE MAY understands children. Her books are not books aboutthem merely. She seems to know precisely how they feel, and she setsthem before us, living and breathing in her pages. Flaxie Frizzle is adarling, and her sisters, brothers, and cousins are just the sort oflittle folks with whom careful mothers would like their boys and girlsto associate. The story is a bright, breezy, wholesome narrative, and itis full of mirth and gayety, while its moral teaching isexcellent."--_Sunday School Times_.
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FLAXIE'S LITTLE PITCHERS
"Little Flaxie will secure a warm place in the hearts of all at once.Here is her little picture. Her name was Mary Gray, but they called herFlaxie Frizzle, because she had light curly hair that frizzled; and shehad a curly nose,--that is, her nose curled up at the end a wee bit,just enough to make it look cunning. Her cheeks were rosy red, 'and shewas so fat that when Mr. Snow, the postmaster, saw her, he said, "Howd'ye do, Mother Bunch?"'"--_Boston Home Journal_.
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SPECIMEN OF CUT TO "FLAXIE FRIZZLE SERIES."
"By and by the colts came to the kitchen window, which was open, and putin their noses to ask for something to eat. Flaxie gave them pieces ofbread."
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FLAXIE'S TWIN COUSINS.
"Another of those sweet, natural child-stories in which the heroine doesand says just such things as actual, live, flesh children do, is the onebefore us. And what is still better, each incident points a moral. TheIllustrations are a great addition to the delight of the youthfulreader. It is just such beautiful books as this which bring to ourminds, in severe contrast, the youth's literature of our early days--thegood little boy who died young and the bad little boy who went fishingon Sunday and died in prison, etc., etc., to the end of the threadbare,improbable chapter."--_Rural New Yorker_.
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FLAXIE'S KITTYLEEN.
"KITTYLEEN--one of the Flaxie Frizzle series--is a genuinelyhelpful as well as delightfully entertaining story: The nine-year-oldFlaxie is worried, beloved, and disciplined by a bewitchingthree-year-old tormenter, whose accomplished mother allows her to preyupon the neighbors. 'Everybody felt the care of Mrs. Garland's children.There were six of them, and their mother was always painting china. Shedid it beautifully, with graceful vines trailing over it, and goldenbutterflies ready to alight on sprays of lovely flowers. Sometimes theneighbors thought it would be a fine thing if she would keep her littleones at home rather more; but, if she had done that, she could not havepainted china.'"--_Chicago Tribune_.
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FLAXIE GROWING UP.
"No more charming stories for the little ones were ever written thanthose comprised in the three series which have for several years pastbeen from time to time added to juvenile literature by SOPHIEMAY. They have received the unqualified praise of many of the mostpractical scholars of New England for their charming simplicity andpurity of sentiment. The delightful story shows the gradual improvementof dear little Flaxie's character under the various disciplines ofchild-life and the sweet influence of a good and happy home. Theillustrations are charming pictures."--_Home Journal_.
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ILLUSTRATION TO "FLAXIE GROWING UP."
"Laughing was the very mainspring of life at Camp Comfort; but the girlshad never laughed yet as they did now, to see Buttons in full swingpreparing to cook a pie."
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