Dedicated.

CONTENTS

PAGE
PREFACE.[5]
PART I.[7]
CHAPTER I.[7]
CHAPTER II.[31]
CHAPTER III.[62]
CHAPTER IV.[76]
CHAPTER V.[100]
CHAPTER VI.[109]
CHAPTER VII.[141]
CHAPTER VIII.[150]
CHAPTER IX.[159]
CHAPTER X.[178]
CHAPTER XI.[187]
CHAPTER XII.[201]
PART II.[213]
CHAPTER XIII.[215]
CHAPTER XIV.[225]
CHAPTER XV.[240]
CHAPTER XVI.[257]
CHAPTER XVII.[279]

PREFACE.

The following is not a child's story. It is intended for those who are interested in children; for those who are willing to stoop to view life as it appears to a child, and to enter for half-an-hour into the manifold small interests, hopes, joys, and trials which make up its sum.

It has been thought that the lives of children, as known by themselves, from their own little point of view, are not always sufficiently realized; that they are sometimes overlooked or misunderstood; and to throw some light, however faint, upon the subject, is one of the objects of this little story.

So much of it has been gathered from observation and recollection, that the author cannot help hoping it may not entirely fail of its aim.