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Title: Little Pollie
A Bunch of Violets

Author: Gertrude P. Dyer

Release Date: December 10, 2006 [EBook #20080]

Language: English

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LITTLE POLLIE
OR
A BUNCH OF VIOLETS

BY
GERTRUDE P. DYER

Author of "Armour Clad," "How Hettie Caught the Sunbeams," etc.

NEW EDITION

John F. Shaw & Co., Ltd.,
Publishers,
3, Pilgrim Street, London, E.C.

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CONTENTS.

PAGE
I. POLLIE STARTS IN BUSINESS 7
II. WHO HAD THE VIOLETS? 17
III. HOW POLLIE SPENT HER MONEY 27
IV. MRS. FLANAGAN 36
V. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN 42
VI. ON WATERLOO BRIDGE 52
VII. THE LOST ONE FOUND 65
VIII. SALLY'S FIRST SUNDAY AT CHURCH 73
IX. CRIPPLED JIMMY 81
X. NORA 95
XI. CHRISTMAS EVE 104
XII. IN THE SPRING-TIME 113

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LITTLE POLLIE.

CHAPTER I.

POLLIE STARTS IN BUSINESS.

"A penny a bunch; only a penny, sweet violets," cried a soft little
voice, just outside the Bank of England, one morning in early spring;
"only a penny a bunch!"

But the throng of busy clerks hurrying on to their various places of
business heard not that childish voice amidst the confused din of
omnibus and cabs, and so she stood, timidly uttering her cry--"Sweet
violets!"--unheeded by the passers-by.

She was a fragile little creature of about ten years old, small for her
age, with shy yet trustful eyes, and soft, brown, cur