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Title: Kitty Canary

Author: Kate Langley Bosher

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Kitty Canary

A NOVEL

BY

KATE LANGLEY BOSHER

AUTHOR OF

"MARY CARY" ETC.

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK

ESTABLISHED 1817

Copyright, 1913, by Harper & Brothers

Printed in the United States of America

Published February, 1918

KITTY CANARY

CHAPTER I

I am in love. It is the most scrumptious thing I have ever been in.
Perfectly magnificent! Every time I think of it I feel as if I were
going down an elevator forty floors and my heart flippity-flops so my
teeth mortify me. He used to be engaged to Elizabeth Hamilton Carter,
the niece of the lady at whose house I am boarding this summer, but he
did something he ought not to have done, or he didn't do something he
ought to have done, and they had a fuss. No one seems to know the
cause of it, but it was probably from her wanting him to be blind to
everything on earth but her, and a man isn't going to be blind when he
wants to see, and then she got _hurt_. I'd rather live in a house with
a cackling hen or a grunting pig than the sort of person who is always
getting hurt. But she's very pretty. Pink-and-white pretty, with
uplifting eyes and a little mouth that shuts itself when mad and says
nothing, and oozes more disagreeableness than if it talked. He still
thinks there isn't another girl in town who can touch her in looks. I
don't suppose a man ever gets over a real case of pink-and-white. It's
the kind that makes a tender memory if it isn't the best sort to live
with, and men like to have a memory to sigh over in secret. Her
rejected one may sigh in secret, but in public he does not seem to be
suffering. He isn't suffering. We like each other very much.

The reason I am glad I am in love is that I am sixteen and I was
getting a