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Title: Prudy Keeping House

Author: Sophie May

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Language: English

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Little Prudy's Flyaway Series.

PRUDY KEEPING HOUSE.

by

SOPHIE MAY.

Author of "Little Prudy Stories," "Dotty Dimple Stories," Etc.

Illustrated.

[Illustration: "O, WHAT A FASCINATING CREATURE!"]

[Illustration: LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES

"What is home without a mother?"

Boston 1891
Lee and Shepard Publishers
10 Milk Street next "The Old South Meeting House"
New York Chas. T. Dillingham
718 and 720 Broadway

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870,
by Lee And Shepard,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

TO
MY YOUNG FRIEND,
_BESSIE BAKER._

CONTENTS.

I. A QUEER IDEA
II. PRIDE AND ORANGES
III. BORROWED JEWELS
IV. GOING TO HOUSEKEEPING
V. MOTHER HUBBARD'S DINNER
VI. PRUDY IN A NEW LIGHT
VII. A FLY IN TRINITY CHURCH
VIII. DOTTY'S WINDPIPE
IX. TWO LIVE CHILDREN
X. "RIDING ON JACK FROST"
XI. THE JEWEL CABINET
XII. "FOLDED EYES"

PRUDY KEEPING HOUSE.

CHAPTER I.

A QUEER IDEA.

One of Mrs. Allen's bay windows stood open. Between the ivies,
tuberoses, and lilies, you caught a glimpse of gilded walls and rare
paintings. Better than all, you saw four young faces looking out at a
snow-storm; Dotty with eyes like living diamonds, Prudy fair and sweet,
Horace lordly and wise; and the little one "with dove's eyes" following
every motion of his head, as if she were a sunflower, and he the sun.

"Please shut the window, quick, Horace; the plants