Divided Skates

AUTHOR OF “MONICA”, “MIXED PICKLES” ETC.
NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1900 By Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
The Way it Began.
Aunt Hannah and Seth. By James Otis. Blind Brother (The). By Homer Greene. Captain’s Dog (The). By Louis Énault. Cat and the Candle (The). By Mary F. Leonard. Christmas at Deacon Hackett’s. By James Otis. Christmas-Tree Scholar. By Frances Bent Dillingham. Dear Little Marchioness. The Story of a Child’s Faith and Love. Dick in the Desert. By James Otis. Divided Skates. By Evelyn Raymond. Gold Thread (The). By Norman MacLeod, D.D. Half a Dozen Thinking Caps. By Mary Leonard. How Tommy Saved the Barn. By James Otis. Ingleside. By Barbara Yechton. J. Cole. By Emma Gellibrand. Jessica’s First Prayer. By Hesba Stretton. Laddie. By the author of “Miss Toosey’s Mission.” Little Crusaders. By Eva Madden. Little Sunshine’s Holiday. By Miss Mulock. Little Peter. By Lucas Malet. Master Sunshine. By Mrs. C. F. Fraser. Miss Toosey’s Mission. By the author of “Laddie.” Musical Journey of Dorothy and Delia. By Bradley Gilman. Our Uncle, the Major. A Story of 1765. By James Otis. Pair of Them (A). By Evelyn Raymond. Playground Toni. By Anna Chapin Ray. Play Lady (The). By Ella Farman Pratt. Prince Prigio. By Andrew Lang. Short Cruise (A). By James Otis. Smoky Days. By Edward W. Thomson. Strawberry Hill. By Mrs. C. F. Fraser. Sunbeams and Moonbeams. By Louise R. Baker. Two and One. By Charlotte M. Vaile. Wreck of the Circus (The). By James Otis. Young Boss (The). By Edward W. Thomson.

Nobody except Miss Lucy Armacost would have thought of starting an orphan asylum with one orphan. Even she might not have done it but for Molly Johns. As for Molly, she never dreamed of such a thing.
She was just careering down the avenue one windy afternoon in early December, upon one roller skate, and Miss Lucy was just coming up the block, walking rather unsteadily upon her two small feet. The dear little old lady was so tiny and so timid, and the wind so big and boisterous, that even without the accident she would have had difficulty in climbing the slope to her big house on the corner.