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Title: Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic

Author: Olive Thorne Miller

Illustrator: Ethel N. Farnsworth

Release Date: August 21, 2009 [EBook #29744]

Language: English

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KRISTY'S RAINY DAY PICNIC

[Illustration: They were playing that the wax Doll was Sick.]

KRISTY'S
RAINY DAY PICNIC

BY
OLIVE THORNE MILLER

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
ETHEL N. FARNSWORTH

BOSTON
AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON,
MIFFLIN CO.

COPYRIGHT 1906 BY H. M. MILLER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published October 1906_

CONTENTS

I. THE RAINY DAY 1

II. PLAYING DOCTOR; AND WHAT CAME OF IT 5

III. A SCHOOLGIRL'S JOKE 20

IV. ALL NIGHT IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE 27

V. MOLLY'S SECRET ROOM 45

VI. HOW MAMMA RAN AWAY 61

VII. HOW AUNT BETTY MADE HER CHOICE 73

VIII. NORA'S GOOD LUCK 91

IX. ONE LITTLE CANDLE 106

X. THE LOCKET TOLD 123

XI. HOW A DOG SAVED MY LIFE 145

XII. LOTTIE'S CHRISTMAS TREE 156

XIII. CHRISTMAS IN A BAGGAGE-CAR