MARIA L. KIRK
PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A.
To
MARY JOSEPHINE
and to the dear memory of her brother
THOMAS GRINDAL
both friendly little critics of my children's stories
Edinburgh, 1877