Peeps Into China; Or, The Missionary's Children

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A STREET SHOWMAN.
OR,
AUTHOR OF TROPICAL READING-BOOKS, THE ORPHANS, BUNCHY, HILDA AND HER DOLL, ETC.
To MY DEAR PARENTS, IN LOVING MEMORY.
Can I forget thy cares, from helpless years Thy tenderness for me?

THE COUNTRY RECTORY.
OT really; you can't mean it really!
As true as possible. Mother told me her very own self, was the emphatic reply.
Two children, brother and sister, the boy aged ten, the girl three years older, were carrying on this conversation in the garden of a country rectory.
But really and truly, on your word of honour, repeated Leonard, as though he could not believe what his sister had just related to him.