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KRISTY’S RAINY DAY PICNIC
They were playing that the wax Doll was Sick.KRISTY’S RAINY DAY PICNIC
BY
OLIVE THORNE MILLER
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
ETHEL N. FARNSWORTH
BOSTON
AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON,
MIFFLIN CO.
COPYRIGHT 1906 BY H. M. MILLER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published October 1906
CONTENTS
| I. | The Rainy Day | 1 |
| II. | Playing Doctor; and what came of it | 5 |
| III. | A Schoolgirl’s Joke | 20 |
| IV. | All Night in the Schoolhouse | 27 |
| V. | Molly’s Secret Room | 45 |
| VI. | How Mamma ran away | 61 |
| VII. | How Aunt Betty made her choice | 73 |
| VIII. | Nora’s Good Luck | 91 |
| IX. | One Little Candle | 106 |
| X. | The Locket Told | 123 |
| XI. | How a Dog saved my Life | 145 |
| XII. | Lottie’s Christmas Tree | 156 |
| XIII. | Christmas in a Baggage-car | 172 |
| XIV. | How a Bear came to School | 189 |
| XV. | How Lettie had her Own Way | 202 |
| XVI. | How Kate found a Baby | 223 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| They were playing that the wax doll was sick (page 6) | Frontispiece |
| Kristy stood peering into a world of drizzling rain | 2 |
| She had to pass a cottage almost hidden with flowers | 124 |
| In the park I found a baby ... and I sat down beside it | 226 |
KRISTY’S RAINY DAY PICNIC
CHAPTER I
THE RAINY DAY
“I think it’s just horrid!” said Kristy, standing before the window, peering out into a world of drizzling rain. “Every single thing is ready and every girl promised to come, and now it has to go and rain; ’n’ I believe it’ll rain a week, anyway!” she added as a stronger gust dashed the drops against the glass.
Kristy’s mother, who was sitting at her sewing-table at work, did not speak at once, and Kristy burst out again:—
“I wish it would never rain another drop; it’s always spoiling things!”
“Kristy,” said her mother quietly, “you remind me of a girl I knew when I was young.”
“What about her?” asked Kristy rather sulkily.
“Why, she had a disappointment something like yours, only it wasn’t the weather, but her own carelessness, that caused it. She cried and made a great fuss about it, but before night she was very glad it had happened.”
“She must have been a very queer girl,” said Kristy.
“She was much such a girl as you, Kristy; and the reason she was glad was because her loss was the cause of her having a far greater pleasure.”
“Tell