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    The Candy Country
    The Candy Country
    The Candy Country
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    The Candy Country

    By Louisa May Alcott

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    Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateJun 20, 2014
    ISBN9781633553927
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    Louisa May Alcott

    Louisa May Alcott was a 19th-century American novelist best known for her novel, Little Women, as well as its well-loved sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women is renowned as one of the very first classics of children’s literature, and remains a popular masterpiece today.

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      The Candy Country - Louisa May Alcott

      The Candy Country

      By Louisa M. Alcott

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2012 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition October 2012

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 978-1-63355-392-7

      The Candy Country

      I shall take mamma's red sun umbrella, it is so warm, and none of the children at school will have one like it, said Lily, one day, as she went through the hall.

      The wind is very high; I'm afraid you'll be blown away if you carry that big thing, called Nurse from the window, as the red umbrella went bobbing down the garden walk with a small girl under it.

      I wish it would; I always wanted to go up in a balloon, answered Lily, as she struggled out of the gate.

      She got on very well till she came to the bridge and stopped to look over the railing at the water running by so fast, and the turtles sunning themselves on the rocks. Lily was fond of throwing stones at them; it was so funny to watch them tumble, heels over head, splash into the water. Now, when she saw three big fellows close by, she stooped for a stone, and just at that minute a gale of wind nearly took the umbrella out

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