THIS VOLUME
IS
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
TO
"ILKEN ANNIE,"
WHO
LIVES ON STATEN ISLAND.


CONTENTS.

A LETTER FROM AUNT FANNY,[7]
THE DOLL'S WEDDING,[10]
WHAT CAME OF GIPSYING,[25]
THE CHILD HEROINE,[50]
AUNT MARY,[69]
LITTLE PETER,[75]
THE STORY TOLD TO WILLIE,[102]

A LETTER
FROM AUNT FANNY.


My Darling Children:

I wrote these stories, as I have already told you, some years ago, and took a great deal of pains with them. I called them "Life Among the Children;" when, lo and behold! somebody else had written a book with the very same name, but very different stories, and I never knew one word about it.