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Title: Dolly and I
A Story for Little Folks
Author: Oliver Optic
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Language: English
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The Riverdale Books.
DOLLY AND I.
A STORY FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
BY
OLIVER OPTIC,
AUTHOR OF THE BOAT CLUB,
ALL ABOARD,
NOW OR NEVER,
"TRY
AGAIN,
POOR AND PROUD,
LITTLE BY LITTLE," &c.
BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD,
(SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.)
1864
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
WILLIAM T. ADAMS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
ELECTROTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.
DOLLY AND I.
I.
Do you know what envy means? I hope you have never felt it, for it is a very wicked feeling. It is being sorry when another has any good thing. Perhaps you will know better what the word means when you have read my story; and I hope it will help you to keep the feeling away from your own heart.
Not far from Mr. Lee's house, in Riverdale, lived a man by the name of Green. He was the agent of one of the factories in the village. Mr. Green had two little girls and three sons. The boys have nothing to do with my story, and for that reason I shall not say a great deal about them.
Katy, Mr. Green's older daughter, was ten years old. She was a pretty good girl, but she did not like to have others get good things, when she did not have any herself. If any person gave one of her brothers an apple, or an orange, she seemed to think she ought to have it.
When she was a baby, she used to cry for every thing she saw, and would give her parents no peace till they gave it to her. I am sorry to say they were sometimes very weak
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