HOW FRECKLE FROG
MADE HERSELF
PRETTY
By
CHARLOTTE B. HERR
Designs
FRANCES BEEM
Published in the Shop of
P. F. VOLLAND & CO.
CHICAGO U.S.A.
THIS LITTLE STORY IS TOLD
AND THE LITTLE PICTURES
WERE DRAWN FOR A GOOD
LITTLE CHILD NAMED
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COPYRIGHT 1913
P F. VOLLAND & CO
CHICAGO, U. S. A.
HOW FRECKLE FROG MADE HERSELF PRETTY
Once upon a time there was a little girl named Marian, and shehad a doll called Big Mary. Marian loved Big Mary, and meant tobe very good to her. But sometimes she was not.
Santa Claus had brought Big Mary one snowy Christmas night, andhe had brought also a great many pretty clothes for her to wear.There were three dresses, a warm red one for winter, and a whiteone, very thin, for summer, and still another, of beautiful bluesilk with lace on it, for best.
Then, also, there were little skirts, and tiny stockings, andpretty little shoes with shiny buckles and real heels, and therewas a pink parasol, and, best of all, a dear little muff, made ofsoft white fur, to keep Big Mary's hands warm in cold weather.
At first little Marian loved to dress Big Mary in all thesepretty things, and she would put on first the warm red dress, andthen the thin white one, and then the one of blue silk with thebeautiful lace. And she would raise the big parasol and put itover Big Mary's head. But she hardly ever gave Big Mary thelittle white muff to hold, because that was for very, verybest. Little Marian's own mamma had said so.
But when Marian's birthday came, grandma gave her a doll's trunk,and after that the days were not so pleasant for Big Mary. It wasso much fun to pack the trunk that little Marian often took offall the clothes Big Mary had on to put them away in the trunk.Many a time poor Big Mary had to sit for hours all undressed, andshe would shiver and shake, until at last one time when littleMarian had left her lying all night on the floor without anyclothes on, she took a dreadful cold and became very ill.
Then little Marian was very sorry for what she had done, and sheput Big Mary to bed and sent for Dr. Prince. When the doctor camehe looked at Big Mary's tongue, and felt her pulse. And then heshook his head and looked very grave. He said that Big Mary musttake some medicine every day, and must sit out in the fresh air,and always wear her best clothes all the time; for she was a verysick doll indeed.
So little Marian dressed Big Mary in the blue silk trimmed withlace, because that was her very best dress, and she raised thepink parasol and put it over her head and she gave Big Mary thewhite muff to hold, because that was for very, very best. Thenshe carried Big Mary out to the gray rock in the back yard wherethe nasturtiums grow, to sit in the