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قراءة كتاب Dorothy's House Party
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Dorothy’s House Party
BY
EVELYN RAYMOND
Illustrations by S. Schneider
CHATTERTON-PECK COMPANY
NEW YORK, N. Y.
Copyright 1908
BY
CHATTERTON-PECK CO.
THE MOONLIGHTED FIGURE BY THE LILY POND.Dorothy’s House Party.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | End of an Infair | 9 |
| II. | Choosing the Guests | 21 |
| III. | The First and Uninvited Guest | 35 |
| IV. | Troubles Lighten in the Telling | 44 |
| V. | Riddles | 61 |
| VI. | A Morning Call | 79 |
| VII. | A Memorable Church Going | 93 |
| VIII. | Concerning Various Matters | 106 |
| IX. | Headquarters | 118 |
| X. | Music and Apparitions | 133 |
| XI. | Morning Talks | 145 |
| XII. | The Greatest Show on Earth | 159 |
| XIII. | In the Great Kitchen | 174 |
| XIV. | Aunt Betty Takes a Hand | 189 |
| XV. | A Marvelous Tale and Its Ending | 203 |
| XVI. | The Finding of the Money | 215 |
| XVII. | The Story of the Worm That Turned | 229 |
| XVIII. | Conclusion | 244 |
DOROTHY’S HOUSE PARTY
CHAPTER I
THE END OF AN INFAIR
Dorothy sat up in bed and looked about her. For a moment she did not realize where she was nor how she came to be in such a strange and charming room. Then from somewhere in the distance sounded a merry, musical voice, singing:
One more river to cross!
He built it out of hickory bark—
One more riv——”
The refrain was never finished. Dorothy was at the open window calling lustily:
“Alfy! Alfy Babcock! Come right up here this very, very minute!”
“Heigho, Sleepy Head! You awake at last? Well, I should think it was time. I’ll be right up, just as soon as I can put these yeller artemisias into Mis’ Calvert’s yeller bowl.”
A fleeting regret that she had not waked earlier, that it was not she who had gathered the morning nosegay for Mrs. Betty’s table, shadowed the fair face of the late riser; but was promptly banished as the full memory of all that happened on the night before came back to her. Skipping from point to point of the pretty chamber she examined it in detail, exclaiming in delight over this or that and, finally, darting