CONTENTS
[CHAPTER I. The Little Girl]
[CHAPTER II. Good-by to an Old Home]
[CHAPTER III. Fine Feathers for the Little Wren]
[CHAPTER IV. A Look at Old New York]
[CHAPTER V. Girls and Girls]
[CHAPTER VI. Miss Dolly Beekman]
[CHAPTER VII. Miss Lois and Sixty Years Ago]
[CHAPTER VIII. The End of the World]
[CHAPTER IX. A Wonderful Scheme]
[CHAPTER X. A Merry Christmas]
[CHAPTER XI. The Little Girl in Politics]
[CHAPTER XII. A Real Party]
[CHAPTER XIII. New Relations]
[CHAPTER XIV. John Robert Charles]
[CHAPTER XV. A Play in the Backyard]
[CHAPTER XVI. Daisy Jasper]
[CHAPTER XVII. Some of the Old Landmarks]
[CHAPTER XVIII. Sundry Dissipations]
[CHAPTER XIX. When Christmas Bells Were Ringing]
A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD NEW YORK
CHAPTER I
THE LITTLE GIRL
"How would you like to go to New York to live, little girl?"
The little girl looked up into her father's face to see if he was "making fun." He did sometimes. He was beginning to go down the hill of middle life, a rather stout personage with a fair, florid complexion, brown hair, rough and curly, and a border of beard shaved well away from his mouth. Both beard and hair were getting threads of white in them. His jolly blue eyes were mostly in a twinkle, and his good-natured mouth looked as if he might be laughing at you.