Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by
E. P. Dutton and Company,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON.
CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | Bertha’s Home | [7] |
| II. | Bertha’s Wish | [14] |
| III. | “How to do it” | [21] |
| IV. | Little Mary’s Home | [29] |
| V. | “Whose Lost have I found” | [44] |
| VI. | Tim turns Policeman | [56] |
| VII. | Another Chase | [69] |
| VIII. | Berty runs away for the last Time | [78] |
| IX. | The Hospital | [86] |
| X. | Mrs. Grey’s Suspicion | [95] |
| XI. | The Chapel Service, and what came of it | [103] |
| XII. | The Wish fulfilled | [119] |
BERTHA WEISSER’S WISH.
CHAPTER I.
BERTHA’S HOME.
It was a dreary, wet October day, and drawing towards the twilight. The dull leaden-looking sky, the wet slippery pavements, the chilly, cross, uncomfortable passengers, gave to even the brightest and most cheerful streets of the great city a very dismal look; and, as for the meaner ones, with their rows of dreary little shops and tumble-down houses, their reeking gutters and dripping wayfarers, they were utterly forlorn.