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Title: Careless Kate
A Story for Little Folks

Author: Oliver Optic

Release Date: May 11, 2008 [EBook #25427]

Language: English

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CARELESS KATE.

A STORY FOR LITTLE FOLKS.

BY

OLIVER OPTIC,

AUTHOR OF "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD," "THE ARMY AND NAVY SERIES," "THE
WOODVILLE STORIES," "THE STARRY FLAG SERIES," "THE BOAT CLUB STORIES,"
"THE LAKE SHORE SERIES," "THE UPWARD AND ONWARD SERIES," "THE YACHT CLUB
SERIES," "THE GREAT WESTERN SERIES," ETC.

BOSTON 1889 LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 10 MILK STREET NEXT "OLD SOUTH
MEETING HOUSE"

NEW YORK CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM

718 AND 720 BROADWAY

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by WILLIAM T.
ADAMS. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

S. J. PARKHILL & CO., PRINTERS, 222 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON.

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[Illustration: CARELESS KATE.]

CARELESS KATE.

I.

"Kate!" said Mrs. Lamb to her daughter, who was playing in the garden,
in front of the house.

"What do you want, mother?" replied the little girl, without even
lifting her eyes from the ground, in which she was planting a marigold.

I don't think any of my young readers regard this as a proper answer for
a little girl to make to her mother; and I hope none of them ever speak
to their parents in this manner.

"Come into the house. I want you," added her mother.

But Kate did not go till she got ready. She was not in the habit of
minding her mother at once, and without asking any improper questions
as, all good children do, or ought to do, at least.

When she stepped out of the bed of flowers, in which she had been at
work, instead of looking to see where she put her feet, she kept her
eyes fixed on the place where she had just p