Front matter
Reading edition
Produced by Branko Collin, Tonya Allen, Charles Franks
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
BESSIE BRADFORD'S PRIZE
The third of a series of sequels to "the Bessie books"
By Joanna H. Mathews
Illustrated by W. St. John Harper
Dedicated to my dear little friend and fellow author Elizabeth Leiper Martin ("Elsie")
With the wish that the path of authorship may have for her as many flowers and as few thorns as it has had for her friend and well wisher