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Title: Dotty Dimple's Flyaway

Author: Sophie May

Release Date: September 11, 2006 [EBook #19247]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "WHAT FOR YOU LOOK THAT WAY TO ME?"]

DOTTY DIMPLE STORIES.

DOTTY DIMPLE'S FLYAWAY.

By SOPHIE MAY,

AUTHOR OF "LITTLE PRUDY STORIES."

Illustrated.

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
NEW YORK:
LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.
1871.

* * * * *

TO THE

LITTLE LINDSAYS.

* * * * *

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. BEGINNING TO REMEMBER.

II. RUNNING AWAY TO CHURCH.

III. RUNNING AWAY TO HEAVEN.

IV. A RAILROAD SAVAGE.

V. EAST AGAIN.

VI. THE RAG-BAG.

VII. THE WICKED GIRL.

VIII. "WHEELBARROWING."

IX. TIN-TYPES.

X. WAKING.

XI. AUNT POLLY'S STORY.

XII. FULL NIPPERKIN.

* * * * *

DOTTY DIMPLE'S FLYAWAY.

CHAPTER I.

BEGINNING TO REMEMBER.

Katie Clifford was a very bright child. She almost knew enough to keep
out of fire and water, but not quite. She looked like other little
girls, only so wise,--O, so very wise!--that you couldn't tell her any
news about the earth, or the sun, moon, and stars, for she knew all
about it "byfore."

Her hair was soft and flying like corn-silk, and when the wind took it
you would think it meant to blow it off like a dandelion top. She was
so light and breezy, and so little for her age, that her father said
"they must put a cent in her pocket to keep her from flying away;" so,
after that, the family began to call her _Flyaway_. She thought it was
her