Mildred Keith
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Finley Martha. Mildred Keith
Chapter First
Chapter Second
Chapter Third
Chapter Fourth
Chapter Fifth
Chapter Sixth
Chapter Seventh
Chapter Eighth
Chapter Ninth
Chapter Tenth
Chapter Eleventh
Chapter Twelfth
Chapter Thirteenth
Chapter Fourteenth
Chapter Fifteenth
Chapter Sixteenth
Chapter Seventeenth
Chapter Eighteenth
Chapter Nineteenth
Chapter Twentieth
Chapter Twenty-first
Chapter Twenty-second
Chapter Twenty-Third
Chapter Twenty-Fourth
Chapter Twenty-Fifth
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The Keith family were relatives of Horace Dinsmore, and as my readers will observe, the date of this story is some seven years earlier than that of the first Elsie book.
The journey, and that most sickly season, which I have attempted to describe, were events in my own early childhood. The latter still dwells in my memory as a dreadful dream.
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"Now to business," said Aunt Wealthy attacking the parcels. "I'm going to help you, Marcia, in getting your tribe ready for their exodus out of this land of plenty into that western wilderness. Here are two or three dress patterns apiece for the little girls. These stuff ones are for them to travel in, and I think they had better be made long necked and high sleeved. Don't you?"
Mrs. Keith looked up with a slightly puzzled expression; then a light breaking over her face, for she was used to her aunt's transpositions – "I don't know," she answered dubiously, "wouldn't it make them look a little old-womanish? Low necks and short sleeves are prettier for children, I think; and they're used to it. Summer's coming on, too, and we must expect warm weather."
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