Transcriber's Note: This book was written by a young girl. There are many spelling andpunctuation errors that have all been retained with the rare exceptionof clear printer's error such as He,en on page 164. These threecorrections are listed at the end of the text. For each story, the titlewas written on a separate page and then repeated on the next page. Thesecond of these was omitted to avoid redundancy for the reader. Theremaining text is intact, for example, on page 335, the chapter MR. HOSEMAKES ENQUIRIES starts with a small letter, most dialogue has nopunctuation at the end and is often missing at least one quotation mark.Missing letters in the original are denoted by asterisks in the text.
DAISY ASHFORD: HER BOOK
DAISY ASHFORD:
HER BOOK
A COLLECTION OF THE REMAINING NOVELS
BY THE AUTHOR OF
"THE YOUNG VISITERS,"
TOGETHER WITH "THE JEALOUS GOVERNES"
BY ANGELA ASHFORD
WITH A PREFACE BY
IRVIN S. COBB
BY THE AUTHOR OF
"THE YOUNG VISITERS,"
TOGETHER WITH "THE JEALOUS GOVERNES"
BY ANGELA ASHFORD
WITH A PREFACE BY
IRVIN S. COBB
| NEW |  | YORK |
| GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY | ||
Copyright, 1920,
By George H. Doran Company
Printed in the United States of America
By George H. Doran Company
Printed in the United States of America
PREFACE
By Irvin S. Cobb
The rôle of discoverer is pleasing, nearlyalways, and more especially in its reactionsis it pleasing. The actual performance of discoverymay be fraught with hardships andwith inconveniences and even with perils; aswitness Christopher Columbus making hisfirst voyage over this way in a walloping window-blindof a tub of a ship and his last oneback with chains at his wrists and ankles; aswitness Hendrick Hudson; as witness Dr.Harvey's unfortunate position in the eye ofconstituted authority after he had discoveredthe circulation of the blood; as witness thelamentable consequences to whoever it waswho, probably by the process of eating a messof miscellaneous wild fungoids, disclosed to abereaved family and a benefited world theimportant fact that certain mushroomswere nourishing and certain toadstools werefatal.[vi]
To your true discoverer the compensationsof his trade come when he points with prideto the continent or the great natural fact orthe new author he discovered and criesaloud before all creation: "See what I havefound!"
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