MRS. MOLESWORTH
Reading edition
AUTHOR OF 'CARROTS,' 'CUCKOO CLOCK,' 'TELL ME A STORY,' ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY ROSIE M. M. PITMAN
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1898
In childhood, when with eager eyes The season-measured years I viewed, All garbed in fairy guise. Cardinal Newman.
I DEDICATE THIS LITTLE STORY
TO MY GRAND-DAUGHTER
VIOLET SARA MOLESWORTH
19 Sumner Place, S.W., February 1898.