Excerpt from The Red Parasol: A Comedy for Girls Edith and mrs. Carter - Becoming tailor-made suits and street hats. Belinda - Middle age, plain dress and wears nurse's cap and apron. Amanda is a large colored woman, gorgeously dressed in a bright blue gown, a pink waist and a big hat with a long feather. Mrs. Mcbride - Plain dress and small hat, which is tipped down over one ear. She has red hair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.