Excerpt: ...two hands and set him just outside the door. I never was rough with any baby in all my life!" "I happen to know, on excellent authority," said Mrs. Milligan, "that you slapped both of those helpless children and threw them down the front steps. Laura was so excited about it that she couldn\'t sleep, and the poor baby cried half the night

First published in the year 1908, the present book \'The Adopting of Rosa Marie\' by the famous American writer Carroll Watson Rankin is a fictional novel which is a sequel to the author\'s \'Dandelion Cottage\'.

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