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    How "A Dear Little Couple" Went Abroad
    How "A Dear Little Couple" Went Abroad
    How "A Dear Little Couple" Went Abroad
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    How "A Dear Little Couple" Went Abroad

    By Mary D. (Mary Dow) Brine

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      How "A Dear Little Couple" Went Abroad - Mary D. (Mary Dow) Brine

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      Title: How A Dear Little Couple Went Abroad

      Author: Mary D. Brine

      Release Date: May 26, 2012 [EBook #39806]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW A DEAR LITTLE COUPLE ***

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      Frontispiece—Dear Little Couple Abroad

      Polly drew her stockings and shoes on.

      See p. 6

      HOW

      A DEAR LITTLE COUPLE

      WENT ABROAD

      BY

      MARY D. BRINE

      AUTHOR OF

      THE DOINGS OF A DEAR LITTLE COUPLE

      —————————

      WITH SEVENTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS

      —————————

      PHILADELPHIA

      HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY

      DEDICATION.

      To my little friends who have known and loved our Dear Little Couple (Polly and Teddy) I herewith dedicate this story, which tells of more of the Doings of the Little Couple, and am lovingly the friend of all my little readers,

      MARY D. BRINE.

      COPYRIGHT, 1903.

      By Henry Altemus.

      HOW A DEAR LITTLE COUPLE

      WENT ABROAD.

      CHAPTER I.

      POLLY THINKS OVER HER SURPRISE.

      LLY opened her blue eyes one lovely morning in May, and found the sun fairies—as she called them—dancing all about her wee bed-chamber, and telling her in their own bright way that it was high time little girls were up and dressing for breakfast.

      At first she was sure she had been having a beautiful dream, for what else could make her feel so happy and sort of all-overish, as if something very nice and unusual had come upon her? She was sure she had dreamed that a splendid surprise had happened, and it was something about going away, too!

      Polly lay still in her little white nest of a bed, and thought over her dream, and lo! on a sudden, as she grew more and more awake, the real cause of her new and glad sensations came into her curly head, and she bounced, like a little rubber ball, right out of bed, and danced a wee lively jig on the floor.

      Why, of course it wasn't a dream! No, indeed! it was as real—oh! as real as Polly Darling herself, and no wonder she had felt so all-overish and so glad all inside of her! She sat down on the soft carpet and drew her stockings and shoes on, but it was slow work, because Polly was thinking, and she had a great deal to think about, you see.

      First—oh! how it all came back to her now!—first she remembered that last night after supper Papa had taken her on his knee and whispered in her ear: Pollybus, how would you like to go with Mamma and Papa across the sea for a little trip?

      And while she was squeezing him almost to pieces by way of answer, Mamma had come along, and had shaken her finger at Papa, as she said: "Oh, naughty Papa! the idea of telling Polly that just when she's going to bed! She won't sleep a wink for thinking of it. And Polly remembered jumping down from Papa's knee, and going to Mamma's side, saying very earnestly: Oh, yes, I will! I truly will, Mamma! I'll shut my eyes and think 'bout little lambs jumping over a fence, 'cause Cook says that's the best way to get sleepy, and it's worked be-yewtifully on her lots of times! Oh, true and true, black and blue, I'll go right to sleep! And oh, I'm so happy!"

      And pretty soon after that the bed-time for little girls had come, and Polly had been kissed and petted a little, as was usual after she had snuggled down in bed, and had a little while alone with her dear Mamma, and then she had tried very hard to keep her promise, and go right to sleep. But oh, dear, it

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