CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.
Milly[7]
CHAPTER II.
“Melindy”[ 25]
CHAPTER III.
Comfort’s Neffy[ 51]
CHAPTER IV.
“Let’s make Friends!”[ 72]
CHAPTER V.
Chickens and “Poetry”[ 109]
CHAPTER VI.
Getting Lost[ 129]

[NELLY’S FIRST SCHOOL-DAYS.]

CHAPTER I.
MILLY.

Not very far from Nelly’s home, stood a small, time-worn, wooden house.

It was not a pleasant object at which to look. A few vines that had been trained over one of the front windows, and a stunted currant-bush which stood by the door, were the only green things within the broken fence. In summer, the cottage looked bald and hot, from its complete exposure to the sun (no trees grew near to shade it), and in winter, the rough winds rattled freely around its unprotected walls.