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    Careless Kate A Story for Little Folks
    Careless Kate A Story for Little Folks
    Careless Kate A Story for Little Folks
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    Careless Kate A Story for Little Folks

    By Oliver Optic

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Careless Kate A Story for Little Folks - Oliver Optic

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Careless Kate, by Oliver Optic

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Careless Kate

      A Story for Little Folks

      Author: Oliver Optic

      Release Date: May 11, 2008 [EBook #25427]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CARELESS KATE ***

      Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was

      produced from scanned images of public domain material

      from the Google Print project.)

      CARELESS KATE.

      A STORY FOR LITTLE FOLKS.

      BY

      OLIVER OPTIC,

      AUTHOR OF YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD, THE ARMY AND NAVY SERIES, THE WOODVILLE STORIES, THE STARRY FLAG SERIES, THE BOAT CLUB STORIES, THE LAKE SHORE SERIES, THE UPWARD AND ONWARD SERIES, THE YACHT CLUB SERIES, THE GREAT WESTERN SERIES, ETC.

      Careless Kate

      BOSTON 1889 LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 10 MILK STREET NEXT OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE

      NEW YORK CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM

      718 AND 720 BROADWAY

      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.

      S. J. PARKHILL & CO., PRINTERS, 222 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON.

      CONTENTS

      CARELESS KATE.

      I.

      Kate! said Mrs. Lamb to her daughter, who was playing in the garden, in front of the house.

      What do you want, mother? replied the little girl, without even lifting her eyes from the ground, in which she was planting a marigold.

      I don't think any of my young readers regard this as a proper answer for a little girl to make to her mother; and I hope none of them ever speak to their parents in this manner.

      Come into the house. I want you, added her mother.

      But Kate did not go till she got ready. She was not in the habit of minding her mother at once, and without asking any improper questions as, all good children do, or ought to do, at least.

      When she stepped out of the bed of flowers, in which she had been at work, instead of looking to see where she put her feet, she kept her eyes fixed on the place where she had just planted the marigold.

      "Look before

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