A Little Girl in Old San Francisco

The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Little Girl in Old San Francisco, by Amanda Minnie Douglas
THE LITTLE GIRL SERIES
A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD SAN FRANCISCO
BY AMANDA M. DOUGLAS
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1905
Copyright, 1905 By Dodd, Mead & Company All rights reserved Published September, 1905
To MARTHA REDINGTON
To you who have enjoyed the charms and wonders of the newer city, the old and remarkable may have a charm. Half a century is not much in which to rear the Queen City of the Western Coast.
With a friend's regard, The Author.

It was a long journey for a little girl, so long indeed that the old life had almost faded from her mind, and seemed like something done in another existence. When she was younger still she had once surprised her mother by saying, Mother, where did I live before I came here? The pale, care-worn woman had glanced at her in vague surprise and answered rather fretfully, Why, nowhere, child.