The Apple Dumpling and Other Stories for Young Boys and Girls

by Aunt Fanny

THE
APPLE DUMPLING,
AND
OTHER STORIES
FOR
YOUNG BOYS AND GIRLS.

LONDON:
ADDEY & CO., 21 OLD BOND STREET.

MDCCCLII.

LONDON:
Printed by G. Barclay, Castle St. Leicester Sq.

TO LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS.

Once on a time there lived a little bit of a lady, who had a great many nephews and nieces. She was very little indeed, so all the children loved her, and said she was the best little Auntie in the world, and exactly the right size to play with them and tell them stories. Sometimes she told them stories about great and good men; sometimes funny stories about Frizzlefits and Rumplestiltskin, and sometimes she would make them nearly die with laughing at stories about the Dutchman, Hansansvanansvananderdansvaniedeneidendiesandesan.

At last, one day, one of her nieces said to her, "Dear Auntie, do write some stories, and put them in a book for us to read, and keep, as long as we live."