The New-Year's Bargain

“There was only one body there,—an old, old man with snow-white hair; but there was a long row of clay figures in front of him.”
THE New-Year’s Bargain.
BY SUSAN COOLIDGE.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ADDIE LEDYARD.
BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. 1884.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by ROBERTS BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
University Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge.
A little golden head close to my knee,
Sweet eyes of tender, gentianella blue
Fixed upon mine, a little coaxing voice,—
Only we two.
“Tell it again!” Insatiate demand!