MARIA L. KIRK
Reading edition · Edition 2
PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A.
To
MARY JOSEPHINE
and to the dear memory of her brother
THOMAS GRINDAL
both friendly little critics of my children's stories
Edinburgh, 1877