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Title: Little White Barbara

Author: Eleanor S. March

Release Date: November 7, 2007 [EBook #23399]

Language: English

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LITTLE WHITE BARBARA

By Eleanor S. March

Illustrated
in Colours

_London:_
GRANT RICHARDS
1902

THE DUMPY BOOKS
FOR CHILDREN

18. Little White Barbara

[Illustration {Publisher's Device:
Sir Joseph Causton & Sons Ltd. / London}]

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This is Little White Barbara. She was
called Little White Barbara because she
had such a white face.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

She lived with her two aunts, Aunt Dosy
and Aunt Posy.

This is Aunt Dosy.

This is Aunt Posy.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

They were very kind to her. All day long
they used to talk about what she ought
to do to get fat and rosy.

Every morning Aunt Dosy gave Little
White Barbara cod liver oil to make her
fat.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

And Aunt Posy rubbed her cheeks with a
rough towel to make them red.

If it was raining they made her sit
indoors all day by the fire.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

And if it was hot they fanned her all
day long to keep her cool.

But still she only got paler and paler,

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

And thinner and thinner.

Until at last she almost faded away, and
you could only see her by loo