Patty Blossom

E-text prepared by Al Haines
Author of The Patty Books, The Marjorie Books, Two Little Women Series, etc.
New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1927
Copyright, 1917 by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
Patty Blossom
Patty, Patty, pit-a-pat, Grinning like a Chessy Cat,
if you don't stop looking so everlasting cheerful, I'll throw something at you!
Throw, returned Patty, as her grin perceptibly and purposely widened to the full extent of her scarlet lips.
All right! and Elise threw a sofa cushion and another and another, following them up with a knitted afghan, a silk slumber robe, and then beginning on a pile of newspapers.
Patty, who was lounging on a broad divan, protected her face with a down pillow, and contentedly endured the avalanche.
Then, as the enemy's stock of missiles gave out, she sat up, flinging the impedimenta right and left, and her smiling face and tumbled curls triumphantly braved further assault.
It's snowing like the very dickens, Elise declared, disconsolately.