The Apple Dumpling and Other Stories for Young Boys and Girls

LONDON: ADDEY & CO., 21 OLD BOND STREET.
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LONDON: Printed by G. Barclay, Castle St. Leicester Sq.

Once on a time there lived a little bit of a lady, who had a great many nephews and nieces. She was very little indeed, so all the children loved her, and said she was the best little Auntie in the world, and exactly the right size to play with them and tell them stories. Sometimes she told them stories about great and good men; sometimes funny stories about Frizzlefits and Rumplestiltskin, and sometimes she would make them nearly die with laughing at stories about the Dutchman, Hansansvanansvananderdansvaniedeneidendiesandesan.
At last, one day, one of her nieces said to her, Dear Auntie, do write some stories, and put them in a book for us to read, and keep, as long as we live.
The little Aunt thought this was a very good plan, and here are the stories, dear little children, for all of you. If you like them, just let me know, and you shall have some more next year from
Aunt Fanny.

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Many years ago, there was a little old woman who lived a long way off in the woods. She lived all by herself, in a little cottage with only two rooms in it, and she made her living by knitting blue woollen stockings, and selling them.