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Title: The key to Betsy's heart
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Ives, Sarah Noble, 1864-1944
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Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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elf-respect came to him. He Van Becomes a Hero 141 could not bear to be brought home in a mansarms. Betsy or Mary might tote him around alittle, if he were tired or sleepy,—but any oneelse,—oh, no, indeed! With a wriggle and a plunge he slipped fromthe hold of the astonished night-watchman, whostood with his mouth open, watching him disap-pear through the dark, like a small goblin, in thedirection of home. The man looked after him, and laughed.The little tykes a sport all right, all right!I shd think Id seen a ghost if I hadnt had holdof him. Betsy lay in her bed, listening for the clearbark that would sound across the lawn sooner orlater. Instead, at the very door of the house sheheard a pitiful wail, and she bounded up to letin a trembling creature, a little Prince, with allthe princeliness gone out of him; he looked nobetter than the meanest mongrel that ever lived. Not until the next day, when the night-watch-man told his story, did she know that her Vanny-Boy was a real hero.
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He was as proud as a peacock. CHAPTER XII THE GREAT PARADE SCHOOL was over, and it was very near theFourth of July. Betsy had never seen acelebration, and neither had Van, for that mat-ter, as there had been no demonstrations at theHospital the year before. But this year there was to be a grand parade;it was to take place on the grounds, for the en-tertainment of the patients. For weeks the at-tendants at the Hospital had been spending theirodd moments in making costumes. There wereto be floats of every kind filled with revelers, andthose who could not ride were to join the pro-cession on foot, decked out with the bravest.After the parade there would be lemonade andpeanuts for everybody, with fireworks in theevening. Betsy was greatly excited. She had been askedto dress as one of a party of haymakers, and ridein a big hay-wagon, all draped with red, white,and blue. Her big brown eyes danced as she 144 The Key to Betsys Heart talked it over the evening before, with Treesaand Mary. Why

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