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Title: Adventure of a Kite

Author: Harriet Myrtle

Release Date: August 2, 2006 [EBook #18968]

Language: English

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ROSE BUD STORIES

Mrs. Harriet Myrtle

NEW YORK

SHELDON & COMPANY

* * * * *

The Rose-Bud Stories,

FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.

Illustrated.

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Adventure of a Kite.

BY

MRS. HARRIET MYRTLE.

* * * * *

New York:

SHELDON AND COMPANY.

1870.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by
SHELDON AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court
of the Southern District of New York.

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The Adventure of a Kite.

One evening, when Mary, her mamma, and Willie had all taken their
seats near the window, and the story was about to begin, Mary
reminded her mamma of a merry adventure that she had mentioned as
having happened when she and her brother and Master White went
out to fly their "new Kite."

"Do, mamma, tell us about that," said Mary.

Her mamma said she would, and after thinking for a few minutes,
to recollect all about it, she began.

One fine, breezy morning in October, Master White came suddenly
to our house, with his eyes looking so bright, and his cheeks so
red from running in the fresh