Oh! Christina!
"Mind yer nut, auntie!" she added; "I'm gaun to drap this yin."
A large empty cardboard box fell at the spinster's feet.
"Christina, I cannot allow you to address me in that disrespectful fashion!" Miss Purvis cried indignantly. "Mind my nut, indeed! What do you mean by it?"
OH! CHRISTINA!
OH! CHRISTINA!
BY
J. J. BELL
Author of "Whither Thou Goest,"
"Wee Macgreegor," etc.
New York Chicago Toronto
Fleming H. Revell Company
London and Edinburgh
Copyright, 1909, by
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 80 Wabash Avenue
Toronto: 25 Richmond St., W.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street
TO
MY SISTERS
SUSIE AND SARA
CONTENTS
page I. The Incorrigible 9 II. The Geography Lesson 19 III. A Zealous Apprentice 26 IV. In Full Charge 36 V. "With Baldyin's Regairds" 44 VI. A Doctor's Assistant 54 VII. The Grammar Lesson 65 VIII. The Inventory 72 IX. The Cheap Sale 79 X. "Ower Auld for True Love" 86 XI. The Gum That Stuck 96 XII. "Backward in Coming Forward" 106 XIII. The Magic Potion 117 XIV. The Compact 128 XV. The Moonlight Cruise 138 XVI. Miss Purvis's Romance 149
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