Little Frankie on a Journey

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Leslie Madeline. Little Frankie on a Journey

CHAPTER I. FRANKIE'S BIRTHDAY

CHAPTER II. FRANKIE'S PARTY

CHAPTER III. FRANKIE'S JOURNEY

CHAPTER IV. PLAYING SCHOOL

CHAPTER V. NELLY'S PRESENT

CHAPTER VI. THE WICKED NURSE

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Perhaps you will wonder whether papa and mamma gave Frankie a present. Yes, they did; but he did not see it until the evening when his little friends came to his party. Jane, too, and even little Margie, remembered it was his birthday, and had a present ready for him.

Jane, with the consent of her mistress, had made a large frosted cake for his company; and Margie gave him a beautiful white kitten, with not one black hair on it.

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Mr. and Mrs. Gray sat on the large iron chairs belonging to the portico, and shook hands with the little girls and boys coming up the avenue; then joining the company on the lawn, where Willie and two of the larger girls were planning some games for them.

After they had enjoyed themselves in this way for an hour, Mrs. Gray called Margie from the lawn, and told her to invite the children to come in. Then she introduced them into the parlor, where on the table they saw a large pile of cards, nearly half a yard in length, with beautiful pictures on them, representing animals and birds; some of them as large as life.

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