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Excerpt from The Little Girl's Housekeeping: And Other Stories "Emily," said Sarah, to her sister, one fine morning, when the two girls had been sent out in the fields, to play for an hour, "What shall we do next to amuse ourselves? I am quite tired of watching for the rabbits as they run across the path, or peep, with their quick timid glance, from under the low-growing leaves and flowers. Suppose we go and look for some of those oddly formed things, which mamma says are the seed-vessels of the mallow; but I call them chooses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.