Copyright, 1890, by

WORTHINGTON COMPANY.

CATHERINE’S COQUETRIES.

A TALE OF FRENCH PEASANT LIFE.


CHAPTER I.
A GAME THAT ENDS BADLY.

“Bravo, Sidonie!”

“Ah, but he escapes her, the scamp!”

Thus shout the spectators as they watch a poor young lame girl chase, with all her energy, a young fellow of two and twenty, who makes all possible effort to elude her.