Kathie's Soldiers

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Douglas Amanda M.. Kathie's Soldiers

CHAPTER I. ENLISTING IN THE GRAND ARMY

CHAPTER II. DRAFTED

CHAPTER III. TRUE TO ONE'S COLORS

CHAPTER IV. LITTLE STEPS BY THE WAY

CHAPTER V. ONE OF THE SMALL DEEDS

CHAPTER VI. GIVING AND RECEIVING

CHAPTER VII. A VISIT

CHAPTER VIII. COMFORT IN NEED

CHAPTER IX. THORNS IN THE PATH

CHAPTER X. UNDER FIRE

CHAPTER XI. IN ANOTHER'S STEAD

CHAPTER XII. HOME AGAIN

CHAPTER XIII. GOOD NEWS

CHAPTER XIV. PUT TO THE TEST

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MISS JESSIE smiled a little at Ada's assumption of womanhood when the two girls came over to drink tea.

"Ah," said Grandmother Darrell, wiping her glasses, "she's no such a girl as Kathie! The child's worth half a dozen of her. After all, there's no place like the country to bring up boys and girls."

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But the flowers lost their charm. Kathie put away her implements, laid off her garden-dress, as she called it, – a warm woollen sack and skirt, – and sat down, disconsolately enough, to practise her music. Next week she was going to school.

She heard Uncle Robert's voice on the porch at the side entrance. Rob was talking in great earnest; but somehow she couldn't have gone out, or trusted the voice still so full of tears.

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