Princess Polly At Play   By: Amy Brooks

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PRINCESS POLLY AT PLAY

[Illustration: "They were out in the sunshine."]

PRINCESS POLLY AT PLAY

By AMY BROOKS

AUTHOR OF "Princess Polly," "Princess Polly's Playmates," "Princess Polly at School," "Princess Polly by the Sea," "Princess Polly's Gay Winter," etc.

[Illustration]

A.L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York Printed in U.S.A.

Copyright, 1915, by THE PLATT & PECK CO.

Printed in U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I POLLY, ROSE AND GWEN 9

II WHO WAS IT 28

III LITTLE SEA NYMPHS 48

IV WHAT MAX DID 68

V WHAT MAX FOUND 87

VI THE SEA KING'S NYMPHS 106

VII A WEDDING AT CLIFFMORE 125

VIII AUNT ROSE CALLS 144

IX AT AVONDALE 163

X THE SHIP COMES IN 182

XI LITTLE PITCHERS 201

XII MAX A STOWAWAY 220

PRINCESS POLLY AT PLAY

CHAPTER I

POLLY, ROSE AND GWEN

A Summer at Cliffmore!

Princess Polly and Rose Atherton could think of little else.

It was true that Avondale was a charming place in which to live, and there were pleasant schoolmates and merry times when Winter came. There were fine lawns and beautiful flowers everywhere, but Polly and Rose loved the shore, and surely the salt air was delightful, and the beach a lovely place on which to romp. There was Captain Seaford, whose little daughter, Sprite, had spent the winter at Avondale, and a pleasant little playmate and classmate she had been.

She had returned to her home at Cliffmore, and now was counting the days when Princess Polly and Rose would arrive, and every morning she would stand in the doorway of her home on the beach, and look in the direction in which Avondale lay.

It happened one morning that at the same moment that Sprite opened the door to look out, Princess Polly and Rose were talking of her. They, too, were out in the sunshine.

"How pretty Sprite looked last Summer when she played that she was a little mermaid, and lay on the rocks looking down into the water, her long yellow hair hanging down over her shoulders," Polly said.

"And the day that she invited me over to her house," said Rose, "her dress was light green, and she wore a string of coral around her neck. I thought she looked sweet then."

"How we did enjoy her house! We never saw one like it. It was a ship's hulk, turned upside down, and divided up into rooms. Oh, but it was cosey!" Polly said.

"And it won't be long before we'll be there at the shore, playing with Sprite just as we did last Summer," said Rose.

A long time they stood talking. There were such delightful memories of Cliffmore, and so many pleasures to anticipate. There would be sailing trips on the "Dolphin," the yacht belonging to Captain Atherton, and Captain Atherton himself had hinted at some sort of merry making that would occur at his fine home on the shore.

"Uncle John doesn't say whether it is to be a party, or what it will be, but when I asked him if it would be fine, he took me on his knee, and he said: