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  SOPHIE MAY'S BOOKS.

  _Any volume sold separately._


  =DOTTY DIMPLE SERIES.= Six volumes. Illustrated.
  Per vol., 75 cents.

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  Dotty Dimple at Home.

  Dotty Dimple out West.

  Dotty Dimple at Play.

  Dotty Dimple at School.

  Dotty Dimple's Flyaway.


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  Flaxie Frizzle.

  Doctor Papa.

  Little Pitchers.

  The Twin Cousins.

  Kittyleen.

  (_Others in preparation._)


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  Little Prudy's Captain Horace.

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  Little Prudy's Cousin Grace.

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  =LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES.= Six vols.
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  Little Folks Astray.

  Prudy Keeping House.

  Aunt Madge's Story.

  Little Grandmother.

  Little Grandfather.

  Miss Thistledown.

  LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS, BOSTON.




[Illustration: "I'M A DOCTOR'S CHILLEN; THEY WON'T BITE ME," SAID
FLAXIE. Page 11.]




[Illustration: Flaxie Frizzle

SERIES

By

SOPHIE MAY

ILLUSTRATED

Doctor Papa.

LEE & SHEPARD BOSTON.]




  _FLAXIE FRIZZLE STORIES._

  DOCTOR PAPA.

  BY

  SOPHIE MAY

  AUTHOR OF "LITTLE PRUDY STORIES," "DOTTY DIMPLE
  STORIES," "LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY STORIES," ETC.


  _ILLUSTRATED._


  BOSTON:
  LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.

  NEW YORK:
  CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM.




  COPYRIGHT,

  1877,

  BY LEE AND SHEPARD.




  CONTENTS.


  CHAPTER                             PAGE

     I. THE SCARECROW SISTER,            9

    II. FLAXIE'S DOSE,                  20

   III. THE KNITTING-WORK PARTY,        36

    IV. MAKING FLAXIE HAPPY,            54

     V. BETTER THAN A KITTEN,           68

    VI. THE STRANGE RIDE,               82

   VII. MAKING CALLS,                   96

  VIII. TEASING MIDGE,                 113

    IX. THE WEE WHITE ROSE,            127

     X. PRESTON'S GOLD DOLLAR,         137

    XI. PRESTON KEEPING HOUSE,         158

   XII. MRS. PRIM'S STRAWBERRIES,      174




FLAXIE FRIZZLE AND DR. PAPA.




CHAPTER I.

THE SCARECROW SISTER.


One morning little Miss Frizzle danced about her brother Preston, as he
was starting for school, saying,--

"If a little boy had one poggit full o' pinnuts, and one poggit full o'
canny, and one in his hands, how many would he be?"

This was a question in arithmetic; and, though Preston was a large boy,
he could not answer it.

"Answer it yourself," said he, laughing.

"He'd have fousands and fousands--as many as _four hundred_!" said
Flaxie, promptly.

"Shouldn't wonder! What's the need of my going to school, when I have a
little sister at home that knows so much?" cried Preston, kissing her
and hurrying away.

Flaxie wished he and her sister Julia--or Ninny, as she called
her--could stay with her all the time. She was lonesome when they were
both gone; and to-day her mamma said she must not go out of doors
because her throat was sore.

She stood for awhile by the kitchen window, looking at the meadow
behind the house. It was sprinkled all over with dandelions, so bright
and gay that Flaxie fancied they were laughing. _They_ didn't have
sore throats. O, no! they could stay out of doors all day long; and
so could the pretty brook; and so could the dog Rover; and the horses,
Whiz and Slowboy; and the two young colts.

By-and-by the colts came to the kitchen window, which was open, and put
in their noses to ask for something to eat. Flaxie gave them pieces of
bread, which Dora handed her; and they ate them, then ran out their
tongues and licked the window-sill, to be sure to get all the crumbs.

"What if they should bite you