"You heartless creature!" She cried even harder the next day, for Dr. Carr talked to her more seriously than he had ever done before. "Where is my poor little Elsie?" She had just tucked them warmly in, when for the first time she missed Elsie. I'll take you up, if you'd like to examine for yourselves.". But bless you—ten minutes afterward they had forgotten all about it. Papa encouraged it. "Oh! They discussed the point so long that the breakfast bell took them by surprise, and they were forced to rush through their dressing as fast as possible, so as not to keep papa waiting. What Katy Did is an 1872 children's book written by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey under her pen name Susan Coolidge.It follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s. Then Dr. Carr was another person who worried her. 2. she exclaimed, looking about: "how you can tell in one minute what sort of a girl one is, just by looking at her room! It was hard work sometimes, but generally she succeeded, so that during the last hymn the two stood together on the seat, quite brisk and refreshed, sharing a hymn-book, and making believe to sing like the older people. Read the next part of Chapter One of ‘What Katy Did’, which describes the Carr children sitting on top of the roof.Then answer the questions in the worksheet: Clover, next in age to Katy, sat in the middle. They all walked to the school together, and said good-by upon the steps. Katy perceived that this was the much-dreaded wash-room. "When I go, she will assume the entire control.". That's it,—the one with the red curtain. repeated Aunt Izzie, much amazed. "Now, are you going to be good,—you two? Two ladies rose to receive them. "There! It was called Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. This page was last edited on 2 July 2019, at 22:16. "I ​shall die, I know I shall. "Indeed we won't," replied Katy. Katy's request had been the opening wedge. After a couple of hours of hard work, No. About seven o'clock, Katy was roused by the click of a blind, and, opening her eyes, saw Clover standing in the window, and peeping out through the half … Answer the following questions. inquired Rose, coolly. She brushed her hair in angry haste, and they all hurried down by a side staircase which, as Rose explained, the school-girls were expected to use. She gave Clover a sharp scolding, and leaving her to wash her tearful face, she went to the bed where John and Dorry lay, fast asleep, and snoring as conspicuously as they knew how. Something strange in the appearance of the bed made her look more closely: she lifted the clothes, and there, sure enough, they were—half dressed, and with their school-boots on. The children always fidgeted when listening to this, partly, I think, because it ​aggravated them to have Katy recommending on paper, as very easy, the virtues which she herself found it so hard to practise in real life. Aunt Izzie wiped up the slop, and taking away the Elixir, retired with it to her closet, ​saying that she "never knew anything like it—it was always so on Mondays.". A. Katy’s room was so gloomy and Katy was so annoyed that Clover and Cecy didn’t mind at being kept away from Katy’s room. so you're going to be next door," said a gay voice, as they passed No. Philly was not quite ​well, and had been taking medicine. Mary evidently considered Rose the most entertaining creature in the world; she giggled violently at all her jokes, and then stepped short and covered her mouth with her fingers, in a frightened way, as if giggling were wrong. A hymn or two followed, or a string of original verses, and, last of all, a chapter of "Little Maria and Her Sisters," a dreadful tale, in which Katy drew so much moral, and made such personal allusions to the faults of the rest, that it was almost more than they could bear. Girls' heads were popped out of upper windows at the swinging of the gate, and, as the door opened, more heads appeared looking over the balusters from the hall above. And sure enough, the next thing came a rattling at the blinds, and there was Alexander, the hired man, standing outside on a tall ladder and nodding his head at the children. Katy sat in her chair, looking very much flushed and excited. Katy was glad when bed-time came. Mrs. Nipson was not tall. Mrs. Florence was not pleased, but she could not object; so she mentioned a shop. She sobbed as if her heart would break at this, and though she made no promises, I think she was never quite so thoughtless again, after that day. UT I am sorry to say that my poor, thoughtless Katy did forget, and did get into another scrape, and that no later than the very next Monday. Just then Aunt Izzie came in, and to her dismay saw a long trickle of something dark and sticky running down on to the carpet. You shall all be got out in a few minutes.". Now recovered from her long paralysis, Katy Carr and her sister Clover are sent to Hillsover boarding school with their snobby cousin, Lilly Page, for one year. It's exactly opposite your window: don't you see?". cried Clover, brightening. "There's Mary, now," went on Rose: "she's named Silver, but she's as good as gold. Susan Coolidge is the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey. she went on, "a wash-stand, I declare! Annie hurried away with a laugh, which she tried in vain to hide. "By the way, where is Lilly?" What Katy Did Susan Coolidge's Books for Young People Volume 1, Issue 1 of What Katy Did series: Author: Susan Coolidge: Illustrated by: Addie Ledyard: Publisher: Little, Brown,, 1908: Original from: the New York Public Library: Digitized: Feb 27, 2009: Length: 274 pages : … Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of 1984 and what it means. ​"Aha! no we won't!" Ungifted Summary and Study Guide. Aunt Izzie, coming in with a candle in her hand, stood in the doorway, astonished at the spectacle. I saw her last term, and the term before. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. The trundle-bed came into view, and sure enough, there was Elsie, in full dress, shoes and all, but ​so fast asleep that not all Aunt Izzie's shakes, and pinches, and calls, were able to rouse her. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. "I'm going out to drink tea with Mrs. Hall and attend the evening Lecture," she went on. These were evidently the colleges, and a large gray building with a spire was as evidently the church; but which one of the many white, green-blinded houses which filled the other sides of the common, was the Nunnery, the girls could not tell. Please forget it, and don't take a dislike to me, and never come again," she added, coaxingly, as Katy and Clover rose to go. "This lady is fully associated with me in the management of the school," explained Mrs. Florence. .mw-parser-output .dropinitial{float:left}.mw-parser-output .dropinitial .dropinitial-fl{position:relative;vertical-align:top}.mw-parser-output .dropinitial .dropinitial-initial{line-height:1.00em;text-indent:0}HE night seemed short; for the girls, tired by their journey, slept like dormice. He’ll be going 5 days a week, for a full day!! And he asked her if she didn't think the ​time was come for beginning to take this dear place towards the children. The dismay and confusion of that moment! how I am behaving! Susan Coolidge. It's perfectly horrid of me. She had taken no fancy to Mrs. Nipson, and did not enjoy the idea of a divided authority. It breaks and she damages her spine. Eyes are dreadfully deceitful things. I can tell you. The ​house papa indicated was by no means so pleasant as the one she had chosen. I mean, this is, after all, quite the shift in his little world. "—she stopped, afraid of being rude. But I think especially on mister Sam. Aunt Izzie called through the keyhole to have it opened, but the roars were so loud that it was long before she could get an anwer. No one else said any thing, except "Butter, please," or "Pass the bread." I shall just write to my father to ask for permission too." There was a maple bedstead and table, a couple of chairs, and a row of hooks; that was all, except that in the wall was set a case of black—handled drawers, with cupboard-doors above them. What Katy did book SET of 3 by Susan Coolidge Book lover Bookworm gift Children teenager readers gift Librarian readers vintage book gift SecretBookCave. Mary Silver ​joined, but stopped pretty soon in her sudden manner. Aunt Izzie would frown and shake her head, but it did little good, especially as Phil and Dorry were sleeping with their heads on her lap, and it took both her hands to keep them from rolling off into the bottom of ​the pew. Monday was apt to...Read What Katy Did full novel online on Bravonovel. The parlor into which they were taken was full of heavy, old-fashioned furniture, stiffly arranged. "Never study till your back aches," he told ​her: "when you are tired, lie flat on the bed for half an hour, and tell Mrs. Florence that it was by my direction.". Some day or other you'll be the death of me! She smiled as she spoke; and Katy, meeting her eyes for the first time, felt that there was something in what Lilly had said. It was a tall, narrow building, with dormer windows in the roof, and a square porch supported by whitewashed pillars. Use a dictionary if you need help. From above came sounds of voices. "I thought so. Mary laughed her uneasy laugh. There was the big wash to be done, and Aunt Izzie always seemed a little harder to please, and the servants a good deal crosser than on common days. Mrs. Florence shook her head at them. She demands an explanation from Mary, who tells her exactly the real state of affairs. 6 was in order, and looked like a different place. THE NUNNERY. This page was last edited on 27 April 2020, at 13:03. Sure enough, Lilly was sitting exactly as Rose had predicted. A pile of trunks stood in the porch. Lilly might have thought them cold-hearted, but papa did not; he knew better. They dared not confess the deed, but it was impossible not to look conscious when Katy was flying about and rummaging after her lost treasure, and she suspected them, and was very irate in consequence. Miss Carr was very faithful to her duties: she seldom left the children, even for an evening; so whenever she did, they felt a certain sense of novelty and freedom, which was dangerous as well as pleasant. She is clumsy, impatient and short-tempered. And I didn't mean it. Some girls who were peeping over the baluster hurried away at their approach. ​It told about knights, and ladies, and giants, and battles, and made her feel hot and cold by turns as she read, and as if she must rush at something, and shout, and strike blows. The house she lived in stood on the edge of the town. After thinking a moment, she trotted quietly across the passage into Aunt Izzie's room. She's a Paragon. Katy felt it, and basely scuttled off to her own room, where she went to bed with all ​possible speed. First she smiled, then a laugh was heard; afterward she announced that she felt better. This paper was partly written, partly printed, on a large sheet of foolscap, and had at the top an ornamental device, in lead pencil, with "Sunday Visitor" in the middle of it. "He's the president's son, you know. The hotel stood on one side of a green common, planted with trees. I should know you had been neat and dainty and housekeepery all your days. What Katy did was Written by Sudan Coolidge in 1872. https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=What_Katy_Did_at_School/Chapter_4&oldid=10124049, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Elsie's waved naturally, so Aunt Izzie ​didn't think it necessary to pin her papers very tight; but Clover's thick, straight locks required to be pinched hard before they would give even the least twirl, and to her, Saturday night was one of misery. So, watching their chance, they carried off the whole edition, and poked it into the kitchen fire, where ​they watched it burn with a mixture of fear and delight which it was comical to witness. ... Katy did not care particularly for the dumpling, but she valued it as a mark of regard, and always ate it when she could. Book Excerpt. What Katy Did (An extract from What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge) About the passage. On the window-sill stood Cousin Helen's vase, which Katy had brought carefully packed among her clothes. Published: 1872 Series: Carr Family #1 Shelved: Children’s fiction (classic, realistic fiction) Challenge: Classics Challenge – #10 Rating: ★★★★★ Buy: The Book Depository More: Goodreads I came across What Katy Did while browsing bookshelves at The Works (and I also bought What Katy Did at School & What Katy Did Next and Little Women & Good Wives, all Wordsworth Classics editions). She thought No. This was almost a year since; but talking of it now put it into their heads to want to try it again. She fanned herself in such a comical way that no one could help laughing. He must have some medicine, just like Philly. there! Above were hooks for towels. 6, with a wash-stand, might be very comfortable. Philly was fast asleep in another room. The sensation was not pleasant; and they felt forlorn, as they went upstairs, and down Quaker Row, toward No. "After all we didn't promise," said Cecy. Finally, she proposed to take them upstairs to see their room. "The time is not yet determined," replied Mrs. Florence. "Here is the room which I propose to give you," she said. Katy's heart gave a great thump, but she rose bravely: "I made up the game, and I was Father Ocean," she said to the astonished Mrs. Knight, who glared at her for a minute, and then replied solemnly, "Very well, Katy – sit down;" which Katy did, feeling more ashamed than ever, but … I am going to be using this book in my essay for Writing for Responsibility but more so as a comparison to the rewrite, Katy. "The first day is always one of license," she said, leading the way along an uncarpeted entry to a door at the end, from which, by a couple of steps, they went down into a square room; round three sides of which, ran a shelf, on which stood rows of wash-bowls and pitchers. The medicine was called Elixir Pro. Sunday always began with a Bible story, followed by a breakfast of baked beans, which two things were much tangled up together in Philly's mind. Most of these errors are painfully obvious and could have been eliminated by just one reading-over by anyone with half a brain. From shop SecretBookCave. What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge, CHAPTER IV. and Clover rose, feeling like a culprit, which she was, for it was much naughtier to pretend to be praying than to disobey Aunt Izzie and be out of bed after ten o'clock, though I think Clover hardly understood this then. Katy jumped up and hurried to the window. About seven o'clock, Katy was roused by the click of a blind, and, opening her eyes, saw Clover standing in the window, and peeping out through the half-opened shutters. The reading part began with a dull little piece of the kind which grown people call an editorial, about "Neatness," or "Obedience," or "Punctuality." It hadn't occurred to me to look at it in that light. "That's the house," said Dr. Carr, pointing. Katy is a tall untidy tomboy, forever getting into scrapes but wishing to be beautiful and beloved. If they didn't do this, she was sure to pick one up and plunge in, and then it was no use to call her, or tug at her dress, for she neither saw nor heard anything more, till it was time to go home. The little ones, cooped up in the nursery all the afternoon, had grown perfectly riotous. ! Aunt Izzie at once began to undress her, and ​while doing so asked so many questions, that before long she had got at the truth of the whole matter. Where did you get it? It is a modern-day retelling of What Katy Did.The author loved the book What Katy Did, so when she got older and became a mother, she used to read the book to her daughter, but she noticed the moral was not appropriate for today's generation.So she rewrote the whole book, in a modern way. "How bright of him! Supper passed off successfully, and all might have gone well, had it not been that after the lessons were learned, and ​Cecy had come in, they fell to talking about "Kikeri.". Clover took one arm, and Katy the other, and the three passed between some lead-colored posts, and took one of the diagonal paths which led across the common. At last Elsie, sobbing violently, explained that Dorry had locked the door, and now the key wouldn't turn, and they couldn't open it. She pulled one of the drawers out a little, climbed up, and reached it down. @media all and (max-width:360px){.mw-parser-output .img-center,.mw-parser-output .img-floatleft,.mw-parser-output .img-floatright{float:none!important;clear:none!important;margin:0 auto!important;padding:0!important}}.mw-parser-output .img-center{float:left;clear:both;width:100%!important;margin:1em auto;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .img-center img,.mw-parser-output .img-floatleft img,.mw-parser-output .img-floatright img{max-width:100%;height:auto}.mw-parser-output .img-floatleft{float:left;clear:left;margin:0 1em 0 0;padding:0 0.5em;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .img-floatright{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 1em;padding:0 0.5em;max-width:100%}UT I am sorry to say that my poor, thoughtless Katy did forget, and did get into another scrape, and that no later than the very next Monday. Katy was naturally fond of reading. Much against their will, John and Dorry were forced to wake up, and be slapped and scolded, and made ready for bed, Aunt Izzie standing over them all the while, like a dragon. "Well, I'm glad," she went on, shaking hands cordially; "I sort of thought you would, and yet I didn't know; and there are some awful stiffies among the new girls. I'm going to be real good this term; I promised mother. Just then it did not seem difficult to keep this rule. In the excitement, time went on much faster than any of them dreamed. "Oh! she exclaimed. Rose liked to protect, and Mary to be protected; Rose to talk, and Mary to listen. Then she sat down and proceeded to make a series of the most grotesque faces, winking her eyes and twinkling her fingers round the head of "Niobe," as she called Lilly, till the other girls were in fits of laughter, and Niobe, though she shrugged her shoulders pettishly and said, "Don't be so ridiculous, Rose Red," was forced to give way. It's rather good of me not to hate you; for I wanted the end room myself, and Mrs. Florence wouldn't give it to me. The English Channel (Class 7) – What Katy Did (An extract from What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge) What Katy Did - Questions and Answers Click What Katy Did - Questions and Answers.pdf link to … "Oh! She was a fair, sweet dumpling of a girl, with thick pig-tails of light brown hair, and short-sighted blue eyes, which seemed to hold tears, just ready to fall from under the blue. https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=What_Katy_Did/Chapter_4&oldid=9411522, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. I can almost always tell without asking; still, it is something to have it on the best authority. One day, when she loses her temper, she purposely disobeys her Aunt Izzy and plays on the swing. The second two books are absolutely peppered with typographical errors, most likely related to OCR. Both ran up two steps at a time, to see what was wanted. The rooms are small; but young people do not require so much space as older ones. What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge is now published by Alma Classics. 6, in shape, size, and furniture; but Rose had unpacked her trunk, and decorated the room with odds and ends of all sorts. Her name was Mary Silver. Would they have to stay there always, and starve? Katy is a tall untidy tomboy, forever getting into scrapes but wishing to be beautiful and beloved. Though, indeed, your elder daughter, Dr. Carr, looks more advanced and grown-up than I was prepared to find her. "In bed!" This afternoon she read the Jerusalem till it was too dark to see any more. It was a small room, but the sun shone in cheerfully at the window. she said. One of the children would stay out in the hall, which was dimly lighted from the stairs, while the others hid themselves in the nursery. Katy glanced down, and saw a handsome young man replacing the cap he had lifted from his head. Rose was sitting in the window as she made these remarks; and, leaning forward suddenly, she gave a pretty, blushing nod to some one below. Now, this is a big transition for all of us, and transitions can be hard- on ALL of us. Nobody was there, but John knew where the Elixir ​Pro was kept—in the closet on the third shelf. Then she changed the subject, gracefully, but so decidedly that Dr. Carr had no chance for further question. The sofa and chairs were covered with black haircloth, and stood closely against the wall. Some books lay upon the table, arranged two by two; each upper book being exactly at a right angle with each lower book. It's very peculiar.". It was very exciting to stand crouching up in a corner and watch the dark figure stumbling about and feeling to right and left, while every now and then somebody, just escaping his clutches, would slip past and gain the hall, which was "Freedom Castle," with a joyful shout of "Kikeri, Kikeri, Kikeri, Ki!" The fun and frolic seemed to grow greater the longer they played. Then there was something very interesting to her in the idea of a whole house full of girls. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Dear, dear! "How do I know," she concluded, "that before I come home you won't have set the house on fire, or killed somebody?". Such a shake as Aunt Izzie gave the little scamps at this discovery, would have roused a couple of dormice. xxx But the others found it much harder to go to bed; there were so many of them, all getting into each other's way, and with no lamp to see by. 'Quaker Row,' the girls call it." A summary of Part X (Section3) in George Orwell's 1984. Let us change this painful subject." As for sensible Clover, she was already desperately in love with Rose, on that very first day! A brand new chapter in our lives calls for some major goal setting. The bottle was large and black, with a paper label tied round its neck, and the children shuddered at the sight of it. "Oh, my!" But Aunt Izzie didn't take this view of the case. Some of them were half open; as ​they went by, Katy and Clover caught glimpses of girls and trunks, and beds strewed with things. are we next door to you?" The effect was fantastic, but cheery; and Katy and Clover exclaimed, with one voice, "How pretty!". There was the big wash to be done, and Aunt Izzie always seemed a little harder to please, and the servants a good deal crosser than on common days. Which she did; and the result was that it set the fashion of wash-stands, and so many papas wrote to "ask permission," that Mrs. Florence found it necessary to give up the lavatory system, and provide ​wash-stands for the whole house. But late in the afternoon a dreadful screaming was heard, and when people rushed from all parts of the house to see what was the matter, behold, the nursery door was locked, and nobody could get in. To Clover and Elsie, Sunday seemed to begin at Saturday's bed-time, when their hair was wet, and screwed up in papers, that it might curl next day. I do not think this fact made her more popular with the principals. As they filed upstairs after ​this cheerless meal, they were met by rows of hungry girls, who were waiting to go down, and who whispered, "How long you have been! Mrs. Hall, as she bade Aunt Izzie goodnight, and shut Dr. Carr's front door behind her with a bang, might have been struck with the singular fact that a distant bang came from her own front door like a sort of echo. "No, and Papa never said a word about our not playing it," added Katy, to whom "Papa" was authority, and must always be minded, while Aunt Izzie might now and then be defied. Among the printed rules, which hung on the bedroom door, they read: "All communication between room-mates, after the retiring bell has rung, is strictly prohibited."