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Phebe, Her Profession
A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book
BY ANNA CHAPIN RAY
1902
CHAPTER ONE
"How do you do?"
The remark was addressed to a young man who roused himself from a brown study and looked up. Then he looked down to see whence the voice proceeded. Directly in his pathway stood a wee boy, a veritable cherub in modern raiment, whose rosy lips smiled up at him blandly, quite regardless of the sugary smears that surrounded them. One hand clasped a crumpled paper bag; the other held a rusty iron hoop and a cudgel entirely out of proportion to the size of the hoop.
"And how is everybody at your house?" the babe demanded. "Are vey pretty well?"