Dorothy

EVELYN RAYMOND
NEW YORK
HURST & CO., Inc.
PUBLISHERS
THE DOROTHY BOOKS By EVELYN RAYMOND
These stories of an American girl by an American author have made Dorothy a household synonym for all that is fascinating. Truth and realism are stamped on every page. The interest never flags, and is ofttimes intense. No more happy choice can be made for gift books, so sure are they to win approval and please not only the young in years, but also grown-ups who are young in heart and spirit.
Copyright, 1907, by The Platt & Peck Co.

DOROTHY
HOW DOROTHY CAME
One spring morning Mrs. John Chester opened the front door of her little brick house and screamed. There, upon the marble step, stood a wicker baby-wagon with a baby in it; and, having received this peculiar greeting, the baby screamed, too. Then it laughed, Mrs. Chester laughed, and, hearing both the screams and the laughter, postman John Chester hurriedly set down his cup of coffee and ran to the doorway. In another instant he, also, was laughing. What childless, child-loving man could help doing so, beholding the pretty sight before him?