LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Looking anxiously at the babe in her arms | [Frontispiece] |
| Ere the child consented to go to bed she opened the little "brown book" | [17] |
| "Come, Frida," she said, "let us play the last passage together" | [66] |
LITTLE FRIDA.
CHAPTER I.
LOST IN THE WOODS.
"When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up."
SEE, Hans, how dark it gets, and thy father not yet home! What keeps him, thinkest thou? Supper has been ready for a couple of hours, and who knows what he may meet with in the Forest if the black night fall!" and the speaker, a comely German peasant woman, crossed herself as she spoke. "I misdoubt me something is wrong. The saints preserve him!"