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"O, WHAT A FASCINATING CREATURE!"
LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES
PRUDY KEEPING HOUSE
ILLUSTRATED
LEE & SHEPARD, BOSTON.
LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES.
PRUDY KEEPING HOUSE.
by SOPHIE MAY.
AUTHOR OF "LITTLE PRUDY STORIES," "DOTTY DIMPLE STORIES," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
"What is home without a mother?"
BOSTON 1891
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
10 MILK STREET NEXT "THE OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE"
NEW YORK CHAS. T. DILLINGHAM
718 AND 720 BROADWAY
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, By LEE AND SHEPARD,In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
TO
MY YOUNG FRIEND,
BESSIE BAKER.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | A Queer Idea | 9 |
| II | Pride and Oranges | 26 |
| III | Borrowed Jewels | 37 |
| IV | Going to Housekeeping | 54 |
| V | Mother Hubbard's Dinner | 73 |
| VI | Prudy in a New Light | 88 |
| VII | A Fly in Trinity Church | 105 |
| VIII | Dotty's Windpipe | 121 |
| IX | Two Live Children | 138 |
| X | "Riding on Jack Frost" | 150 |
| XI | The Jewel Cabinet | 167 |
| XII | "Folded Eyes" | 182 |
PRUDY KEEPING HOUSE.
CHAPTER I.
A QUEER IDEA.
One of Mrs. Allen's bay windows stood open. Between the ivies,tuberoses, and lilies, you caught a glimpse of gilded walls and rarepaintings. Better than all, you saw four young faces looking out at asnow-storm; Dotty w
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