Excerpt from May Iverson Her Book Blossom says I'm considered one Of the friendliest girls in school, but it was fully two weeks before even I called Maude Joyce by her first name, and I think it must have been a whole month before I got round to Maudie She was a very proud, haughty girl, and kept us at a distance. She told me afterwards that this was because she was watching us and making up her mind which Of us she cared to have come into the individual Circle of her life. She used beautiful language sometimes. She said girls Often made mistakes when they went to a new school, and took up with the first student that came along, instead Of waiting to know them and make a wiser choice; and she said that intimacies once formed were Often hard to break. You see how clever she was to think Of all these things. I never do. I either like a girl or dislike her right Off, and when I do like her I just put myself out to Show it. Of course, I'm particular about some things - the way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.