Funny Little Socks / Being the Fourth Book

THE CHILDREN GIVING GAWOW A DANCE.
BEING
BY
THE AUTHOR OF THE LITTLE WHITE ANGEL. NEW YORK: LEAVITT & ALLEN, 21 & 23 MERCER ST. 1863.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by S. L. BARROW, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. JOHN T. TROW, Printer, Stereotyper and Electrotyper, 60 Greene Street, New York.
TO DARLING LITTLE ALLIE BABY, These Funny Little Socks ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

One day Kitty's mother called her little daughter to her, and taking both her dimpled dots of hands in her own soft white ones, said, Kitty, my darling, I am going to New York this morning, to see your dear grandma', and I shall have to leave the house in your charge until I come back. Do you think you can be my little housekeeper for to-day?
Oh yes, mamma! I should like that so much! I will keep house as well as you—that is, 'most, not quite! and Kitty jumped up and down for joy at being trusted with such important affairs.
You must take care of dear little Luly and Walter, you know; see that they have their dinners fixed right, and go out walking with them and nurse; and if any company comes, you must go down and see them, and say that mamma has gone to New York, will you?
Yes, mamma; I will be just as good as pie! said Kitty, earnestly; Luly and Wawa will like to have me for a mother, I guess.
Yes; you are their Little Mother for to-day, said her mamma. I know you love me, Kitty, and want to save me all the trouble you can; it will be a great comfort to me, while I am away, to feel that I can trust you perfectly; and she kissed the little, rosy cheek, I'm sure I can't tell how many times, and Kitty felt so proud and happy that she only wished she had been trusted with a much larger family of little brothers and sisters, instead of two; that she might show the more what an excellent Little Mother she intended to be. You would wish so too, wouldn't you! yes, of course!