Just Sixteen.

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Coolidge Susan. Just Sixteen.

A LITTLE KNIGHT OF LABOR

SNOWY PETER

THE DO SOMETHING SOCIETY

WHO ATE THE QUEEN'S LUNCHEON?

THE SHIPWRECKED COLOGNE-BOTTLE

UNDER A SYRINGA-BUSH

TWO GIRLS – TWO PARTIES

THE PINK SWEETMEAT

ETELKA'S CHOICE

THE FIR CONES. AN IDYL OF CHRISTMAS EVE

A BALSAM PILLOW

COLONEL WHEELER

NINETY-THREE AND NINETY-FOUR

THE SORROWS OF FELICIA

IMPRISONED

A CHILD OF THE SEA FOLK

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THE weather was very cold, though it was not Christmas yet, and to the great delight of the Kane children, December had brought an early and heavy fall of snow. Older people were sorry. They grieved for the swift vanishing of the lovely Indian summer, for the blighting of the last flowers, chrysanthemums, snow-berries, bitter-sweet, and for the red leaves, so pretty but a few days since, which were now blown about and battered by the strong wind. But the children wasted no sympathy on either leaves or berries. A snow-storm seemed to them just then better than anything that ever grew on bush or tree, and they revelled in it all the long afternoon without a thought of what it had cost the world.

It was a deep snow. It lay over the lawn six inches on a level; in the hollow by the fence the drifts were at least two feet deep. There was no lack of building material therefore when Reggie proposed that they should all go to work and make a fort.

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"That's not fair," remonstrated Paul, "when I've been working so hard, and it's so cold, and when I like jam so, and when it's so awfully good beside."

"Jam! what is jam?" thought Snowy Peter. He pressed his cold nose closer to the glass.

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