THE DIARY OF DELIA
“‘Dying!’ ses I.”
The
Diary of Delia
Being a Veracious Chronicle of the Kitchen
with Some Side-lights on the Parlour
By
ONOTO WATANNA
Author of “A Japanese Nightingale,” etc.
Illustrated by
May Wilson Preston
New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1907
Copyright, 1906, by
The Curtis Publishing Company
Copyright, 1906, 1907, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, May, 1907
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATIONINTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
ILLUSTRATIONS
| “‘Dying!’ ses I.” | Frontispiece |
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| “‘Now remimber’ ses Minnie, ‘no gineral housework for you.’” | 22 |
| “‘Very well Delia’ ses she. ‘It’s hard on me ... so much trouble.’” | 36 |
| “I tuk a bit of paper from Mr. John’s desk, and I penned the following warning in plane litters and langwidge.” | 44 |
| “‘Mr. John’ I exclaimed involuntarararily, ‘are you sun struck. What’s the trubble?’ ses I.” | 58 |
| “Mr. Wolley cum crorling frum underneath the ortermobile.” | 114 |
| “‘Go away John! Go away!’ ses she, ‘you shan’t open the dure.’” | 134 |
| “‘But suppose’ ses he, leening a bit nearer, ‘that the litter was not for you.’” | 146 |
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