ILLUSTRATED BY ROSIE M. M. PITMAN
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1898
In childhood, when with eager eyes
The season-measured years I viewed,
All garbed in fairy guise.
Cardinal Newman.
I DEDICATE THIS LITTLE STORY
TO MY GRAND-DAUGHTER
VIOLET SARA MOLESWORTH
19 Sumner Place, S.W.,
February 1898.