Three pretty maids

By Amy E. Blanchard.
Illustrated by Ida Waugh.
TWENTY LITTLE MAIDENS. Small 4to. Cloth, $1.50. TWO GIRLS. GIRLS TOGETHER. 12mo. Cloth extra, $1.25. Two volumes in a box, $2.50.
Purity of tone and reality of impression are the leading tokens of a book for girls by Miss Blanchard. She enters with a peculiar zest into the spirit of girlhood.
Persis was at that moment knitting her brows over some papers at a table in Annis’s little attic room.
BY AMY E. BLANCHARD AUTHOR OF “TWO GIRLS,” “GIRLS TOGETHER,” “BETTY OF WYE,” ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALICE BARBER STEPHENS
PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1897
Copyright, 1897, BY J. B. Lippincott Company.
TO THE DEAR SHARERS OF ALL MY JOYS AND SORROWS, MY WARMEST ADMIRERS, MY LIFE-LONG LOVERS, MY MOST-CHERISHED COMPANIONS, MARY AND LUCY, THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED WITH TENDER RETROSPECTION AND DEEP AFFECTION BY THEIR SISTER, AMY E. BLANCHARD.
Philadelphia, 1897.
THREE PRETTY MAIDS.
It was in a comfortable-looking house, surrounded by a garden, in the most attractive part of a pleasant city not two hundred miles from the nation’s capital, that the mother of the pretty maids sat sewing one day in early October. She was listening for the first footstep which should announce the return of her girls from school. And presently she heard the front door shut, then a quick, light step on the stair, and a voice coming nearer and nearer, singing,—