



Produced by Meredith Minter Dixon and Melissa Reid




[Frontispiece:  Going to Barbara's Wedding]


Little Prudy Series -------------------

LITTLE PRUDY'S COUSIN GRACE

BY

SOPHIE MAY

BOSTON: LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

LEE & SHEPARD,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

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COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY REBECCA S. CLARKE.

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LITTLE PRUDY'S COUSIN GRACE


CONTENTS.

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I.  THE CUP AND SAUCER

II.  THE RUBY SEAL

III. THE PRIZE

IV. A SNAKE IN THE GRASS

V. FORTUNES

VI. MISFORTUNES

VII. THE REGARD-RING

VIII. PRUDY PARLIN

IX. BARBARA'S WEDDING

X. WHO GETS THE PRIZE?

XI. THE CHILDREN'S FAIR


COUSIN GRACE
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CHAPTER I.

THE CUP AND SAUCER.

Grace Clifford and Katharine Hallock were such dear friends, and spent
so much time together, that you could not think of one without
thinking of the other, and people linked their names together, and
spoke of "Grace and Cassy," just as one speaks of a "cup and saucer"
or a "hook and eye."

Yet they were not in the least alike.  There was something very eager
and vivid about Grace, with her bright blue eyes, auburn curls, and
brilliant color.  She had an ecstatic way of laughing, and a wild,
agonized way of weeping.  She clapped her hands for joy,