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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Candy Country, by Louisa M. Alcott This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Candy Country Author: Louisa M. Alcott Release Date: April 25, 2008 [EBook #25165] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CANDY COUNTRY *** Produced by David Edwards, Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain material produced by Microsoft for their Live Search Books site.) THE CANDY COUNTRY BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT AUTHOR OF "LITTLE WOMEN," "LITTLE MEN," "AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL," "AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG," "LULU'S LIBRARY," ETC. Illustrated BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY _Copyright, 1885,_ BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT _Copyright, 1900,_ BY JOHN S. P. ALCOTT University Press JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. * * * * * [Illustration: "Hollo, what do you want?" he asked, staring at her. PAGE 10.] THE CANDY COUNTRY "I shall take mamma's red sun umbrella, it is so warm, and none of the children at school will have one like it," said Lily, one day, as she went through the hall. "The wind is very high; I'm afraid you'll be blown away if you carry that big thing," called Nurse from the window, as the red umbrella went bobbing down the garden walk with a small girl under it. "I wish it would; I always wanted to go up in a balloon," answered Lily, as she struggled out of the gate. She got on very well till she came to the bridge and stopped to look over the railing at the water running by so fast, and the turtles sunning themselves on the rocks. Lily was fond of throwing stones at them; it was so funny to watch them tumble, heels over head, splash into the water. Now, when she saw three big fellows close by, she stooped for a stone, and
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