Corduroy

RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL
Books by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL
CORDUROY NARRATIVES IN VERSE JANE JOURNEYS ON PLAY THE GAME
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY New York London
THE NEXT MORNING SHE WAS EARLY ON HER HORSE AND SHE WORE HER WORN AND MELLOW CORDUROYS
CORDUROY
BY RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL AUTHOR OF “PLAY THE GAME,” “JANE JOURNEYS ON,” ETC.
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK : : LONDON : : 1923
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Copyright, 1922, by The Crowell Publishing Company PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO W. S. Y. WHO HAS PUT ON CORDUROY AND WEARS IT WELL
CORDUROY
FOR the first time in her life—she had been alive twenty-two vivid and zestful years—Virginia Valdés McVeagh, nicknamed, descriptively, “Ginger,” felt something like reverence for a male creature of her own species.