BY
CLARA DILLINGHAM PIERSON
Author of “Among the Forest People,” “Night People,” etc.
Illustrated by F. C. GORDON
NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY
31 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET
Copyright, 1903
BY
E. P. DUTTON & CO.
Published Sept., 1903
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
To
MY FATHER
WHO FIRST TAUGHT ME TO LOVE
MY DOORYARD FRIENDS
PREFACE
My Dear Little Friends:—These stories are of things which I have seen with my own eyes in my own yard, and the people of whom I write are my friends and near neighbors. Some of them, indeed, live under my roof, and Silvertip has long been a member of our family. So, you see, I have not had to do like some writers—sit down and think and think how to make the people act in their stories. These tales are of things which have really happened, and all I have done is to write them down for you.