Lucinda's year in New York City began when her family went to Europe and
left her with Miss Peters - not, thank Heaven, with Aunt Emily and her
four docile, ladylike daughters. Miss Peters understood that a girl of
ten wanted to roller-skate to school, and stop and chat with Patrolman
M'Gonegal, and make friends with Mr. Gilligan, the cabbie, and even play
with Tony, whose father kept a fruit stand down the street. "Roller
Skates" is a delightful story of old New York, and about a tomboy who
could not help being a lady at the same time.