"And they shall live with their children."

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge


COPYRIGHT 1908 BY ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published April 1908

TENTH IMPRESSION


No man has the right to dedicate to another what is not his own. All that is mine in this little book is its infelicities. These I dedicate to oblivion. The rest belongs to those two women from whom I, as son and as husband, have learned all that I know of the training of parents.