"Oh, gladden not thy heart, loved mother, with this joy. I seek not to behold the future, but I see not in this world my kingdom, for the rose blossoms I pluck from out the hedge-rows fall; and it is their thorn branch that ever within my hands twines into a crown."
Here ends The Potato Child and Others by Mrs. Charles J.
Woodbury. The frontispiece after a bas-relief by Elizabeth
Ferrea. Published by Paul Elder & Company and done into a
book for them at their Tomoye Press, under the direction of
John Henry Nash, in the city of San Francisco, Nineteen
Hundred & Eleven