[Transcriber's notes:
Punctuation and inconsistencies in language anddialect found in the original book have been retained.
Sophie May is a pseudonym of Rebecca Sophia Clarke 1833-1906
Smilie/Smiley spelled two ways: used Smiley.]
LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES.
AUNT MADGE'S STORY.
BY
SOPHIE MAY,
AUTHOR OF "LITTLE PRUDY STORIES," "DOTTY DIMPLESTORIES," 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.)
AUNT MADGE'S STORY.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. Totty-Wax. 9
CHAPTER II. The Lady Child. 20
CHAPTER III. The BlueParasol. 38
CHAPTER IV. Lize Jane. 55
CHAPTER V. The Party. 69
CHAPTER VI. The PatchworkSchool. 87
CHAPTER VII. The LittleLie-Girl. 108
CHAPTER VIII. The Tansy Cheese.122
CHAPTER IX. "Waxeration." 140
CHAPTER X. "The Child's Alive." 159
CHAPTER XI. The First Car Ride 174
CHAPTER XII. Better ThanKittens. 188
CHAPTER XIII. GoodBy. 199
AUNT MADGE'S STORY.
CHAPTER I.
TOTTY-WAX.
Here you sit, Horace, Prudy, Dotty, and Flyaway, all waiting for astory. How shall I begin? I cannot remember the events of my life inright order, so I shall have to tell them as they come into my mind.Let us see. To go back to the long, long summer, when I was a child:
There once lived and moved a little try-patience, called MargaretParlin; no more nor less a personage than myself, your affectionateauntie, and very humble servant. I was as restless a baby as ever saton a papa's knee and was trotted to "Boston." When I cried, my womanlysister 'Ria, seven years old, thought I was very silly; and my brotherNed, aged four, said, "Div her a pill; I