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Title: Mary Rose of Mifflin

Author: Frances R. Sterrett

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MARY ROSE OF MIFFLIN

by

FRANCES R. STERRETT

Author of
The "Jam Girl" and "Up the Road with Sallie"

Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright

[Frontispiece: "'It's an e-normous house, isn't it!' she said in
surprise"]

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Copyright, 1910, by
D. Appleton and Company

TO THE MEMORY OF

MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER

WHO MADE A VERY FRIENDLY

PLACE IN THIS BIG WORLD

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"'It's an e-normous house, isn't it!' she said
in surprise" . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

"'You can't ever know, Aunt Kate, how splendid
it is to wear skirts'"

"Shelves and birdcage had all disappeared"

"'I haven't seen a canary bird for years,' she murmured"

"'It's a squirrel! A really truly squirrel in this big city!'"

"Mary Rose was perched on a chair across from him and was
telling him of Mifflin"

"There on the wide window seat was the self-supporting cat"

"'Why didn't you come home before, Mary Rose?'
Miss Thorley asked"

MARY ROSE OF MIFFLIN

CHAPTER I

"It's there in every lease, plain as print," Larry Donovan insisted.
"No childern, no dogs an' no cats. It's in every lease."

"I don't care if it is!" Kate Donovan's face was as red as a poppy and
she spoke with a determination that exactly matched her husband's.
"You needn't think I'm goin' to turn away my own sister's only child?
Who should take care of her if I don't? Tell me that, Larry Donovan,
an'