Identifier: diaryofbirthdayd00dowe (find matches)
Title: The diary of a birthday doll
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Dow, Ethel C. (Ethel Constance), b. 1890
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Publisher: Philadelphia E. Stern & Co., Inc.
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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She set me down on the floor, and drew on her slippers in a flash FRIDAY—MY LEG IS BROKEN AND MENDED looking up into her mothers face with the most implor-ing expression, her lips pressed tight together, her eyesstrained and full of tears. In her right hand she washolding up my poor leg. It certainly gives you thequeerest kind of feeling to see part of your leg held upin another persons hand. Ill do my best, Lucy, Grandma Ellis was saying,doubtfully, but— and then Mamma Lu interrupted herwildly: 1 Mamma! Mamma! You must cure her, youmust, you must, or Id never speak to myself again,never, never! Its all my fault; oh, mamma, you dontknow! and poor Mamma Lu burst into great loud sobs. Hush, dear, said Grandma Ellis, soothingly, Your fault? Did you let her drop? Oh, no, no, no! I was so naughty, yesterday.Look, mamma—she picked up that mean brush, andheld it out despairingly— I spanked her, all for nothing,so hard with this. And mamma—she wrenched off thesticky ball of gum that

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