DEDICATION.
Reading edition
To my Sisters, Fanny and Caroline.
I hope you will not despise my first efforts, and that you will find as much pleasure in reading this little Book, as I have had in writing it.
Mary Curtis.
The following Memoirs were written by one of our young friends, (but eleven years of age,) for her amusement while sojourning in the country the past summer. The interest she appeared to take in them, has been the cause of their publication; and to the growing judgments, and gentle criticisms of such little readers, the volume is submitted.
The Publishers. Boston, December, 1852.