Roller Skates

A year on roller skates! A year when one was free to stop and chat with Patrolman M'Gonegal, and make friends with Mr. Gilligan, the cabby, and even play with Tony, whose father kept a fruitstand down the street.

This was Lucinda's year in New York City in 189–, when her family went to Europe and left her — not, thank Heaven, with Aunt Emily and her four docile, ladylike daughters, but with Miss Peters, who understood that a girl of ten wanted to roller skate to school, and who wasn't always worrying about a little lady's social dignity!

This is a delightful story of old New York, about a tomboy who could not help being a lady at the same time, who was both quick-tempered and sympathetic, both stubborn and astute.

From start to finish it rings true — and no wonder, for if you read the introduction, you will find that it all really happened once.