BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1896
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by
LOUISA M. ALCOTT
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
UNIVERSITY PRESS : JOHN WILSON & SON,
CAMBRIDGE.
CONTENTS.
I. [Cupid and Chow-Chow]
II. [Huckleberry]
III. [Nelly's Hospital]
IV. [Grandma's Team]
V. [Fairy Pinafores]
VI. [Mamma's Plot]
VII. [Kate's Choice]
VIII. [The Moss People]
IX. [What Fanny Heard]
X. [A Marine Merry-making]
AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG.
I.
CUPID AND CHOW-CHOW.
(With Illustrations by Addie Ledyard)
Mamma began it by calling her rosy, dimpled, year-old baby Cupid, and as he grew up the name became more and more appropriate, for the pretty boy loved every one, every one loved him, and he made those about him fond of one another, like a regular little god of love.