NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
713 Broadway
1876
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
To CHRISTIAN BAYARD BÖRS,
Who, for Four Years, gave to The Funny House
on Funny Street,
so much of its Life and Brightness,
and
A Merry Band
of Nieces and Nephews,
This Little Book is Inscribed, by their loving Aunt,
“Who asks not a life for those dear ones,
All radiant, as others have done,
But that life may have just enough shadow
To temper the glare of the sun.”