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One beautiful morning in October the sun came up rejoicing. Dotty Dimple watched it from the window with feelings of peculiar pleasure. "I should think that old sun would wear out and grow rough round the edges. Why not? Last week it was ever so dull; now it is bright. I shouldn't wonder if the angels up there have to scour it once in a while." You perceive that Dotty's ideas of astronomy were anything but correct. She supposed the solar orb was composed of a very peculiar kind of gold, which could be rubbed as easily as Norah's tin pans, though so intensely hot that one's fingers would, most likely, be scorched in the operation. On this particular morning she felt an unusual interest in the state of the weather. It had been decided that she should go West with her father, and this was the day set for departure. "I am happy up to my throat:" so she said to Prudy. And now all this happiness was to be buttoned up in a cunning little casaque, with new gaiters at the feet, and a hat and rosette at the top. Forty pounds or so of perfect delight going down to the depot in a carriage. "Don't you wish you could go, Zip Parlin? I'd like to hear you bark in the cars; and I'd like to hear you talk, Prudy, too!" As Dotty spoke, the faintest possible shadow flickered across her radiant face; but it was only for a moment. She could not have quite everything she wanted, because she could not have Prudy; but then they were to take a basket of cold boiled eggs, sandwiches, and pies; and over these viands, with a napkin between, were two picture-books and a small spy-glass.

Dotty Dimple Out West was first published in 1868. It is the third book in the "Dotty Dimple" series. These are some of the most touching and wholesome children's stories that have ever graced paper. Now, in the light of a new generation, they are as radiant, if not more radiant, than they were when first published. “She is the Dickens of the nursery, and we do not hesitate to say develops the rarest sort of genius in the specialty of depicting smart little children."--Hartford Post. “It does not seem an exaggerated statement to say that there is no living author of books for and about girls who portrays with more fidelity the mischievous, sparkling, winsome girl of the hearth and home in all the freshness and sweetness of early youth than does Sophie May.” -Public Opinion “Bright, cheery sunshine. Sophie May is to be congratulated on the success in a new field of literature.” -Graphic “The brightest, frankest, breeziest narrative that one could ask. Of course, that is what one expects and gets from Sophie May; equally, of course, the reader’s pleasure is quite as keen with each new book. The stories deal so affectionately, so reasoningly with child-growth that the character of each little one comes forth like a flower in springtime and refreshes all who read, as well as suggesting to many a parent, we hope, the means of obtaining their children’s obedience through love, instead of through fear. As Sophie May tells them, we are only too happy to listen to each tiniest detail of the lives of the little folk, for they prove interesting and amusing in the extreme – as may all child-lives if sympathetically studied.” -Philadelphia Press “Sophie May did for young children what Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Louisa May Alcott did for older ones, depicting them realistically with all their mischievousness and their imagination and humor.” -Faye Riter Kensinger, Children of the Series and how They Grew, Or, A Century of Heroines and Heroes, Romantic, Comic, Moral, 1987 "Sophie May's excellent pen has perhaps never written anything more pleasing to children, especially little girls, than Dotty Dimple." --'Herald of Gospel Liberty (cover image courtesy of Cris Watk)

Excerpt from Dotty Dimple Out WestDotty Dimple Out West was written by Sophie May in 1869. This is a 178 page book, containing 23665 words and 2 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Rebecca Sophia Clarke (1833-1906) was an American author of children's fiction. She wrote under the penname Sophie May and had 45 published works between 1860 and 1903. The most successful were the Little Prudy characters which made their first appearance in short stories for the children's periodicals, The Little Pilgrim and the Congregationalist. The series was later published into books. Her sister Sarah Jones Clarke (1840-1929) was also an author of children's books. She wrote under the penname Penn Shirley. Rebecca attended a "female academy" in Norridgewock and taught for a while, but she never married. Amongst her works are: Little Prudy (1863), Little Prudy's Sister Susy (1864), Little Prudy's Captain Horace (1864), Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple (1868), Dotty Dimple Out West (1868), Dotty Dimple at Play (1869), Little Folks Astray (1870) and The Twin Cousins (1880).

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