Bertha B. and Ernest Cobb.

To Miss Priscilla Cobb.

CONTENTS

ChapterPage
1.Lost in a Big City [1]
2.The Children’s Home [16]
3.The First Night [28]
4.Who is Clematis? [41]
5.Clematis Begins to Learn [52]
6.Clematis Has a Hard Row to Hoe [61]
7.What Clematis Found [72]
8.A Visitor [86]
9.The Secret [97]
10.Two Doctors [109]
11.A Long, Anxious Night [121]
12.Getting Well [134]
13.Off for Tilton [145]
14.The Country [160]
15.Clematis Tries to Help [172]
16.Only a Few Days More [186]
17.Where is Clematis? [200]
18.Hunting for Clematis [215]
19.New Plans [230]
20.The True Fairy Story [237]

ILLUSTRATIONS

1.“Are you going to sit here all day, little girl?”
2.“I don't want to stay here if you're going to throw my cat away.”
3.With Katie in the kitchen.
4.Thinking of the land of flowers.
5.Clematis held out her hand.
6.Clematis is better.
7.Off for Tilton.
8.In the country at last.
9.The little red hen.
10.Clematis watched the little fishes by the shore.
11.“I shan't be afraid.”
12.A little girl was coming up the path.
13.Deborah was very hungry.
14.“Didn't you ever peel potatoes?”
15.“What are you sewing?”
16.Clematis stuck one hand out.
17.She could see the little fish.
18.In Grandfather's house.