Books with author Carolyn Bailey

Excerpt: one another all over with handfuls of snow, Violet had a new idea. "Let us make an image out of snow," she said. "It shall be our little sister and shall run about and play with us all winter long!" "Oh, yes!" cried Peony. "And mother shall see it." "Yes," Violet answered. "Mother shall see the new little girl. But she must not make her come into the warm parlor, for our little snow sister will not love the warmth." 166 So the children began this great business of making a snow image that should run about. Violet told Peony what to do, while with her own careful fingers she shaped all the nicer parts of the snow figure. It seemed, in fact, not so much to be made by the children as to grow up under their hands as they were playing and talking about it. Their mother, who was sitting at the window, watched them. The longer she looked, the more and more surprised she grew. "What remarkable children mine are!" she said to herself. "What other children could have made anything so like a little girl's figure out of snow at the first trial?" "Peony, Peony!" cried Violet to her brother, "bring me some of that fresh snow from the farthest corner where we have not been trampling. I want to make our little snow sister's dress with it. You know it must be white, just as it came out of the sky." "Here it is, Violet!" Peony said as he came floundering through the drifts. "Here is the snow for her dress. Oh, Violet, how beautiful she begins to look!" "Yes," Violet said thoughtfully and quietly, "our snow sister does look very lovely. I did not know, Peony, that we could make such a sweet little girl 167 as this. Now bring me those light wreaths of snow from the lower branches of the pear tree. You can climb up on a snowdrift and reach them. I must have them to make some curls for our little snow sister's head." "Here they are, Violet," answered the little boy. "Take care you do not break them. Oh, how pretty!" "We must have some shining little bits of ice to make...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...pink ears. "There," Susan exclaimed. "I look as old as a miss of fourteen and I can be quite as dignified. I will put on my best silk dress, and my silk hose, and my Sunday shoes with the silver buckles." As she spoke, Susan pulled out boxes and opened a chest and drawers. Then she stood in front of her mother, her arms loaded with finery. She made a quaint little curtsey. "The family of the President of the Continental Congress will be represented at the Royal Governor's party," she said. "Mistress Susan Boudinot will take the place of Madam Boudinot." A space of a half-hour later a dignified little lady stepped out of the door of the Boudinot mansion and into a waiting chaise. Susan held her head very high. Was not her hair done up for the first time, and its mass of ringlets pinned with one of her mother's tortoise-shell combs? Her buff brocade dress was made with a lace underbody. A polonaise and deep frills of lace edged the elbow-length, closefitting sleeves and fell as far as the small white hands. A blue locket on a strip of narrow black velvet ribbon was hung about the little girl's throat, and over it all was thrown a ruffled cape of her mother's lined with fur. As the chaise rattled away toward the Governor's mansion her mother's parting words to her repeated themselves over and over again in Susan's mind. "Be a good child, Susan, and do not forget for a moment that you are representing your father and, through him, the Congress." It was a gay scene in which little Mistress Susan soon found herself. The Governor's parlor was very beautiful with its high-backed mahogany chairs and great bowls of roses. A huge sideboard was loaded with cakes and sweets, and the great round table...

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