CONTENTS.


The Jimmyjohns:—Page.
I.A Morning with the Jimmyjohns[11]
II.The Sad Fate of “Polly Cologne”[18]
III.An Account of the Jimmyjohns’ Little Affair with the Gulls[26]
IV.The Jimmyjohns’ Sailor-Suits[35]
V.A Leaf from a Little Girl’s Diary[46]
VI.A Little Girl’s Story[50]
VII.The Bad Luck of Bubby Cryaway[57]
VIII.What made Mr. Tompkins laugh[66]
IX.Mr. Tompkins’s Small Story[76]
Flowers waking up[80]
The Little Pullwinger’s Dream[85]
How the Barn came from Jorullo[95]
A Potato Story which begins with a Bean-Pole[107]
The Way Mrs. MacGarret’s Tea-Party was broken up[110]
Getting up in the World[114]
The Story of Florinda[118]
The House that Jack built[134]
A Little Guess-Story[147]
The Little Beggar-Girl[152]
Wide-Awake[169]
Reasons why the Cow turned her Head away[173]
Two Little Rogues[179]
The Belated Butterfly[182]
The Maple-Tree’s Children[186]
The Whisperer[189]
A Stranger in Pilgrim-Land, and what He saw[191]
Dramas and Dialogues:—
The Gypsies.—A May-Day Drama[205]
A December Charade.—(Farewell.)[221]
The Little Visitors.—A Play for Young Children[233]
The Bird Dialogue[242]
Shopping.—A Dialogue for the very Little Ones[250]
May-Day Indoors; or, The Yotopski Family’s Rehearsal[255]