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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Little White Barbara, by Eleanor S. March This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Little White Barbara Author: Eleanor S. March Release Date: November 7, 2007 [EBook #23399] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE WHITE BARBARA *** Produced by Louise Hope, David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) This book was originally published as part of the series, “The Dumpy Books for Children.” Other titles include Little Yellow Wang-lo and Little Black Sambo. Two preliminary pages have been moved to the end of the e-text. Punctuation and capitalization are unchanged. The graphic used as a separator is adapted from the cover design. Little White Barbara By Eleanor S. March ILLUSTRATED IN COLOURS London: GRANT RICHARDS 1902 ---- ---- This is Little White Barbara. She was called Little White Barbara because she had such a white face. see text 2 see text She lived with her two aunts, Aunt Dosy and Aunt Posy. This is Aunt Dosy. This is Aunt Posy. see text 7 10 see text They were very kind to her. All day long they used to talk about what she ought to do to get fat and rosy. Every morning Aunt Dosy gave Little White Barbara cod liver oil to make her fat. see text 15 18 see text And Aunt Posy rubbed her cheeks with a rough towel to make them red. If it was raining they made her sit indoors all day by the fire. see text 23 26 see text And if it was hot they fanned her all day long to keep her cool. But still she only got paler and paler, see text 31 34 see text And thinner and thinner. Until at last she almost faded away, and you could only see her by looking through a telescope. see text 39 42 see text see text And then Aunt Dosy and Aunt Posy began to cry and say, “Oh, dear, what shall we do!” They cried so hard that their caps fell off, and then they said: “We will send for Dr. Funnyman.” When Dr. Funnyman came he looked at Little White Barbara through an eye-glass and a magnifying glass and an opera-glass and a telescope, and then he said to Aunt Dosy and Aunt Posy: “You must go to London and buy her some Laughing Medicine. I will send her something to do her good till you come back.” 47 50 see text So Aunt Dosy and Aunt Posy went to London to buy the Laughing Medicine. And the Doctor sent Barbara —what do you think?—not a bottle of medicine, but His naughty little boy Tommy to play with her. Tommy looked very funny. He had a frog in one pocket and a guinea-pig in the other, and directly Barbara saw him see text 55 58 She began to laugh. And she laughed and laughed, and all the time [opposite] And then Tommy showed her how to climb trees, but see text 63 66 see text She fell down, and then she began to laugh so much that This time she got so fat, all the buttons came off the back of her frock. see text 71 74 see text Then they ran races round the garden till Barbara’s cheeks got quite red, and Tommy showed her how to play leap-frog, and she was so hungry at tea-time that see text 79 82 see text She ate twenty-two pieces of bread-and-butter and seventeen pieces of bread-and-jam, and drank ten cups of milk, and When Aunt Dosy and Aunt Posy came back from London,—where they could not find any Laughing Medicine in any of the shops,— see text 87 90 see text They found Little White Barbara quite rosy and fat, and they were so happy. And she was never called Little White Barbara any more. ---- THE DUMPY BOOKS FOR CHILDREN 18. Little White Barbara ---- The Dumpy Books for Children CLOTH, ROYAL 32mo, 1/6 EACH I. 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The Bad Mrs. Ginger. Illustrated in Colours by Honor C. Appleton. XVII. Peter Piper’s Practical Principles. Illustrated in Colours. XVIII. Little White Barbara. Illustrated in Colours by Eleanor S. March. XIX. The Japanese Dumpy Book. Illustrated in Colours by Yoshio Markino. A Cloth Case to contain Twelve Volumes can be had price 2s. net; or the First Twelve Volumes in Case, price £1 net, London: GRANT RICHARDS, 48, LEICESTER SQUARE. ---- End of Project Gutenberg's Little White Barbara, by Eleanor S. 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