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Title: The Candy Country

Author: Louisa M. Alcott

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Language: English

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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.

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[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