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Trif and Trixy; A Story of a Dreadfully Delightful Little Girl and Her Adoring and Tormented Parents, Relations and Friends
Trif and Trixy A Story of a Dreadfully Delightful Little Girl and Her Adoring and Tormented Parents Relations and Friends Author:John Habberton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1897 Original Publisher: H. Altemus Subjects: Girls Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com w... more »here you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. A SURPRISE. " T T ERE'S a letter for you, Harry," said Kate 11 Trewman one morning as her brother came to the breakfast table, " and from the penmanship of the address I should imagine it to be from a washerwoman or a newsboy." Harry looked solemnly at the address -- he had looked solemnly at everything for several days, but when he saw the signature he started, a motion which did not escape the observant eye of his sister, who exclaimed : " Do tell me what has happened ! You look like an actor in a play with a great letter-scene in it." Harry did not reply, for he was trying to read the letter, the writer of which could read, he knew, but seemed not to have learned to write, or even to spell, for the letter ran as follows : " Dere Mister Trumen : I wunt to git yure pik- cher an if yu giv it tu me yu needunt giv me that dolle tho I want the dolle lots an them yure sistur wus goin to gimme. Plese send me the pikcher rite away cause I'm goin a travelen. Youres trule Trixy Highwood." " Do tell me what it is!" exclaimed Kate. "'Tis a dead secret -- or a mystery," Harry replied, with an absent-minded manner and a far-away look. Then he re-read the letter and laughed, at which Kate said : " Thank goodness! Evidently it isn't a tragedy ! " " No, although there may be some elements of a drama in it." " Do let me see the letter." " Not now, dear girl. It is on a matter which I think should be regarded as strictly confidential." Nevertheless Kate saw the letter before the day was done, and she did a lot of thinking about it. Then she drew he...« less