COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY ETHEL CALVERT PHILLIPS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

TO
DR. GORDON KIMBALL DICKINSON
MY FATHER’S FRIEND AND MINE

CONTENTS

I. How Polly Perkins was Made[ 1]
II. Where is Polly Perkins?[ 12]
III. Polly Perkins goes on a Journey[ 25]
IV. What Anne Marie saw from the Window[ 38]
V. Out in the Snow[ 49]
VI. Wee Ailie McNabb[ 59]
VII. Three Little Girls and Polly Perkins[ 68]
VIII. Grandmother King’s Christmas Party[ 78]
IX. Anne Marie and the Christmas Angel[ 90]
X. What Santa Claus brought to Ailie McNabb[ 103]
XI. The Very Best Christmas of All[ 112]

PRETTY POLLY PERKINS

CHAPTER I
HOW POLLY PERKINS WAS MADE

Polly Perkins was a big rag doll, the prettiest, the softest, the most comfortable rag doll that ever belonged to a little girl.

Grandmother King made her for Patty, who was five years old and visiting Grandmother at the time, and this is just how it all happened.