Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
MR. DOTTIN SHOOK HIS FIST AT HIS LATE VISITORS,
AND SHUT THE DOOR UPON THEM.
KITTY'S ENEMY:
OR,
The Boy Next Door.
BY
ELEANORA H. STOOKE.
S. W. PARTRIDGE & CO.
4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. I.
MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN
First published September, 1911
Frequently reprinted
CONTENTS.
Chap.
VI. CONCERNING THE COVERED BASKET
XI. KITTY ASKS FORGIVENESS OF TIM
KITTY'S ENEMY.
CHAPTER I.
THAT DREADFUL BOY.
"KITTY, fetch the rake from the tool-house, will you?"
"All right," responded Kitty; and dropping the fork with which she hadbeen at work moving up the earth in her garden-plot, she hastened to doher brother's bidding.
Kitty and Bob Glanville were "putting in a morning gardening," asBob would have expressed it. They were both enthusiastic gardeners,and had been allotted a few yards each in the long strip of groundwhich stretched at the back of the semi-detached villa in the smallprovincial town where they lived. And it being the Easter holidays—itwas at the end of April—they had plenty of time to devote to tillingtheir respective garden-plots, and were enjoying their labours inanticipation of the fine show of flowers they would have later on fromthe seeds which they were now sowing. Kitty, who was a nice-lookinglittle girl of ten years old, with blue eyes and fair, curly hair,was two years her brother's junior, and being extremely good-naturedshe allowed him to order her about, and rarely thought of refusing todo his will. Bob was very fond of his sister; but he presumed on hisseniority in many ways and expected always to take the lead.
Kitty having procured the rake returned with it to her brother. "