A FLOCK
of
GIRLS AND BOYS.
by NORA PERRY,
Author Of "Hope Benham," "Lyrics And Legends," "A Rosebud Garden Of Girls," Etc.
Illustrated by CHARLOTTE TIFFANY PARKER.
1895.
[Frontispiece: That little Smith girl]
CONTENTS
THAT LITTLE SMITH GIRL
THE EGG BOY
MAJOR MOLLY'S CHRISTMAS PROMISE
POLLY'S VALENTINE
SIBYL'S SLIPPER
A LITTLE BOARDING-SCHOOL SAMARITAN
ESTHER BODN
BECKY
ALLY
AN APRIL FOOL
THE THANKSGIVING GUEST
ILLUSTRATIONS.
THAT LITTLE SMITH GIRL
"MISS PELHAM! MISS MARGARET PELHAM!"
WALLULA CLAPPED HER HANDS WITH DELIGHT
A VERY PRETTY PAIR
SIBYL'S REFLECTIONS
A TALL, HANDSOME WOMAN SMILED A GREETING
SHE WAS ADDRESSING MONSIEUR BAUDOUIN
THE PRETTY LITTLE BASKET OF GREEN AND WHITE PAPER
AS THE FRESH ARRIVALS APPEARED
THAT LITTLE SMITH GIRL.
CHAPTER I.
"The Pelhams are coming next month."
"Who are the Pelhams?"
Miss Agnes Brendon gave a little upward lift to her small pert nose as she exclaimed:
"Tilly Morris, you don't mean to say that you don't know who the Pelhams are?"
Tilly, thus addressed, lifted up _her_ nose as she replied,--
"I do mean to say just that."
"Why, where have you lived?" was the next wondering question.
"In the wilds of New York City," answered Tilly, sarcastically.
"Where the sacred stiffies of Boston are unknown," cried Dora Robson, with a laugh.
"But the Pelhams,--I thought that everybody knew of the Pelhams at least," Agnes remarked, with a glance at Tilly that plainly expressed a doubt of her denial. Tilly caught the glance, and, still further irritated, cried impulsively,--
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Flock of Girls and Boys by Nora Perry
- 2: Whereat Dora Robson gave a little giggle and exclaimed
- 3: The old Wentworths were splendid fellows
- 4: She'd be full of these Pelhams
- 5: She may be acquainted with the Pelhams
- 6: And she quite understood Miss Agnes's unfinished sentence
- 7: And as Peggy went down to luncheon
- 8: Wheeling about and nodding to Tilly and Tom to follow
- 9: Tilly took a sudden resolution
- 10: And what what was that Tilly
- 11: And you can tell Miss Agnes Brendon this
- 12: Where Smithson has rented a villa
- 13: As Dora wound up her recital of the Smithson Smith story
- 14: Smith and her niece are these Smithsons
- 15: Smith and Peggy were those Smithsons
- 16: Those girls are worrying poor Tilly
- 17: Tilly will never forget that action
- 18: Will looked at Tilly with wonder
- 19: How I love the 'Morgen Blaetter
- 20: Tilly broke down and began to cry
- 21: What do you mean by calling me Miss Smithson
- 22: And now I'll give it to Miss Pelham
- 23: One of Agnes's wonderful Pelhams
- 24: But I do see Miss Pelham speaking to Miss Peggy Pelham
- 25: Marge dropped her book and ran to join her sister Elsie
- 26: Them Purcels allers was pretty peppery
- 27: As Elsie and Marge expressed it
- 28: When Tom and Jimmy Barrows arrived
- 29: Lloyd put the matter before her
- 30: Cunningly inwound in the tendrils
- 31: Elsie Lloyd had jumped from the wagon
- 32: Molly Elliston thought she was a beauty
- 33: And Metalka was so dis'pointed
- 34: When Metalka first took 'count for him
- 35: Her promise to Wallula would be broken
- 36: But in vain she tried to rein Tam in
- 37: In breaking her promise to Wallula
- 38: Repeated Wallula in glad triumphant accents
- 39: Flinging her arm round Wallula
- 40: And Barney was bound and gagged
- 41: It's the day you send valentines
- 42: And the valentine was a beauty
- 43: And you'd choose me to be your valentine
- 44: And Polly knew this perfectly well
- 45: I want a valentine right off now this minute
- 46: I guess I'll buy the valentine
- 47: To buy Jane McClane a valentine
- 48: Did Jane get the valentine all right
- 49: You and Jane and the valentine
- 50: Merridew was a stanch royalist
- 51: These are the teachings that he has been instilling into you
- 52: Sibyl blushed as she read this
- 53: Sibyl wrote her message to Anthony Styles
- 54: The stanch rebel whom they think a stanch Tory
- 55: Leaving Sibyl with the slipper still in her hand
- 56: Everything seemed to go well with Janey
- 57: Who was not in the same class with Eva and Alice
- 58: I couldn't help thinking of Cordelia
- 59: As Alice and Janey left the room
- 60: Cordelia turned her head a moment
- 61: Putting her arm about Cordelia
- 62: I have promised to take tea with Esther Bodn
- 63: Don't you know that Esther assists Miss Milwood
- 64: What in the world is a Windlow
- 65: Even for neglecting me for that little Bodn girl
- 66: I'll bet you anything that this Esther Bodn is a foreigner
- 67: Going to sunsets and tea on McVane Street
- 68: If she does live on McVane Street
- 69: A model for Rebecca the Jewess
- 70: Stung by a sore sense of injustice
- 71: Nobody else here lives on McVane Street
- 72: And are here now on McVane Street
- 73: For what do you think Flo Aplin says
- 74: Was addressing Monsieur Baudouin
- 75: To visit their French kinsfolk
- 76: The saleswoman called after her
- 77: Becky looked staggered for a moment
- 78: Though often vastly entertained by Becky
- 79: Becky looked at them with mischief in her eyes
- 80: Becky only shrugged her shoulders disdainfully
- 81: And once more Becky was forgotten
- 82: I'm looking for little Becky Hawkins
- 83: Becky Hawkins a disgrace to yer
- 84: And I I smell the Mayflowers
- 85: Take your old bangle and keep it
- 86: Ally unfortunately overheard her aunt say to Florence
- 87: The inquisitive person had said
- 88: And she heard him say to him in a big burly voice
- 89: At sight of them the parrot screamed
- 90: Uncle John glanced at the card
- 91: In what gentle phrase he could
- 92: And what was that Aunt Kate was saying
- 93: And Lizzy Ryder held out her hand coaxingly
- 94: Mary Marcy was a shrewd girl as well as an observant one
- 95: You're as good as Marian Selwyn
- 96: The Ryders have always known the Selwyns
- 97: And mortified Tilly dreadfully
- 98: But the note that Angela received may not be sealed with wax
- 99: With its skimp skirt and sleeves and shrunken waist
- 100: A look that the Selwyn cousins
- 101: This is my friend Angela Jocelyn
- 102: And what a Thanksgiving ought to be
- 103: It is that horrid Marchant boy
- 104: Lambert herself felt this pathos