Produced by Steve Schulze, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the CWRU Preservation Department Digital Library. HTML version by Al Haines. ROSY BY MRS. MOLESWORTH AUTHOR OF 'CARROTS,' 'CUCKOO CLOCK,' 'TELL ME A STORY.' ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER CRANE [Illustration: MANCHON] CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. ROSY, COLIN, AND FELIX CHAPTER II. BEATA CHAPTER III. TEARS CHAPTER IV. UPS AND DOWNS CHAPTER V. ROSY THINKS THINGS OVER CHAPTER VI. A STRIKE IN THE SCHOOLROOM CHAPTER VII. MR. FURNITURE'S PRESENT CHAPTER VIII. HARD TO BEAR CHAPTER IX. THE HOLE IN THE FLOOR CHAPTER X. STINGS FOR BEE CHAPTER XI. A PARCEL AND A FRIGHT CHAPTER XII. GOOD OUT OF EVIL LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. MANCHON "BEATA, DEAR, THIS IS MY ROSY," SHE SAID ROSY AND MANCHON "WHAT IS ZE MATTER WIF YOU, BEE?" HE SAID "DID YOU EVER SEE ANYTHING SO PRETTY, BEE?" ROSY REPEATED "WHAT IS THERE DOWN THERE, DOES YOU FINK?" SAID FIXIE BY STRETCHING A GOOD DEAL SHE THOUGHT SHE COULD REACH THEM "IT'S A ROSE FROM ROSY" CHAPTER I. ROSY, COLIN, AND FELIX. "The highest not more Than the height of a counsellor's bag." --WORDSWORTH. Rosy stood at the window. She drummed on the panes with her little fat fingers in a fidgety cross way; she pouted out her nice little mouth till it looked quite unlike itself; she frowned down with her eyebrows over her two bright eyes, making them seem like two small windows in a house with very overhanging roofs; and last of all, she stamped on the floor with first her right foot and then with her left. But it was all to no purpose, and this made Rosy still more vexed. "Mamma," she said at last, for really it was too bad--wasn't it?--when she had given herself such a lot of trouble to show how vexed she was, that no one should take any notice. "_Mamma_" she repeated.