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The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Little Florida Lady, by Dorothy C. Paine
Title: A Little Florida Lady
Author: Dorothy C. Paine
Release Date: November 27, 2005 [eBook #17165]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LITTLE FLORIDA LADY***
E-text prepared by Al Haines
[Frontispiece: The Little Florida Lady]
A LITTLE FLORIDA LADY
by
Dorothy C. Paine
Philadelphia
George W. Jacobs & Company
Copyright, 1903, by
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
Published, October, 1903
CONTENTS
| I. | THE JOURNEY TO FLORIDA |
| II. | THE NEW HOME |
| III. | BETH'S FIRST FISHING LESSON |
| IV. | VISITING |
| V. | WALKING ON STILTS |
| VI. | HOUSE BUILDING |
| VII. | BETH'S NEW PLAYFELLOW |
| VIII. | LEARNING TO SWIM |
| IX. | THE LITTLE DRESSMAKER |
| X. | THE HORSE RACE |
| XI. | DON MEETS A SAD FATE |
| XII. | THE ARRIVAL OF DUKE |
| XIII. | ANXIOUS HOURS |
| XIV. | THE RESCUE |
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Little Florida Lady ……… Frontispiece
Beth Thought a Cotton Field a Pretty Sight [missing from book]
Beth's New Home [missing from book]
Maggie, a Typical Old-Time Mammy
Laura Corner in the Treasured Easter Hat
Harvey [missing from book]
"The Cutest Things Yon Ever Saw"
January with His Perpetual Laugh and Fiddle
The Darkies' Quarters
A Little Florida Lady
CHAPTER I
The Journey to Florida.
New York was in the throes of a blizzard. The wind howled and shrieked, heralding the approach of March, the Wind King's month of the year. Mrs. Davenport stood at a second story window of a room of the Gilsey House, and looked down idly on the bleak thoroughfare. She was a young-looking woman for her thirty-five years, and had an extremely sweet face, denoting kindliness of heart.
The hall door opened, and Elizabeth Davenport entered, carrying in her arms a little ball of fluffy gray.
Elizabeth, or Beth, as she was more commonly called at the age of seven, might have been compared to a good fairy had she not been so plump. She almost always radiated sunshine, and her face was generally lighted with a smile, the outcome of a warm heart. Sometimes clouds slightly dimmed the sunshine, but they always proved to be summer clouds that quickly passed. Her face was now flushed, and her eyes sparkled.
Mrs. Davenport turned, and smiled in greeting, but, at the same time, brushed a tear from her eye.
"Why, mamma, dear, what's the matter?" cried Beth.
Mrs. Davenport's eyes filled, but she bravely smiled. "I'm a little unhappy over leaving all our friends, Beth. Florida seems very far away."
"I wouldn't be unhappy."
"How would you help it, dearie?"
"Why mamma," she answered triumphantly after a second's thought, "there are