CONTENTS
LITTLE GEORGE WASHINGTON, PART I.
GREAT GEORGE WASHINGTON, PART II.
THE MAPLE-LEAF AND THE VIOLET.
DETAILED CONTENTS.INTRODUCTION. Kate Douglas WigginPREFACE. Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. SmithTHE ORIOLE'S NEST. Kate Douglas WigginDICKY SMILY'S BIRTHDAY. Kate Douglas WigginAQUA; OR, THE WATER BABY. Kate Douglas WigginMOUFFLOU. Adapted from Ouida by Nora A. SmithBENJY IN BEASTLAND. Adapted from Mrs. Ewing by Kate Douglas Wiggin andNora A. SmithTHE PORCELAIN STOVE. Adapted from Ouida by Kate Douglas WigginTHE BABES IN THE WOOD. E. S. SmithTHE STORY OF CHRISTMAS. Nora A. SmithTHE FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY. Nora A. SmithLITTLE GEORGE WASHINGTON. Part I. Nora A. SmithGREAT GEORGE WASHINGTON. Part II. Nora A. SmithTHE MAPLE-LEAF AND THE VIOLET. Nora A. SmithMRS. CHINCHILLA. Kate Douglas WigginA STORY OF THE FOREST. Nora A. SmithPICCOLA. Nora A. SmithTHE CHILD AND THE WORLD. Kate Douglas WigginWHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL. Kate Douglas WigginFROEBEL'S BIRTHDAY. Nora A. Smith
Story-telling, like letter-writing, is going out of fashion. There are no modern Scheherezades, and the Sultans nowadays have to be amused in a different fashion. But, for that matter, a hundred poetic pastimes of leisure have fled before the relentless Hurry Demon who governs this prosaic nineteenth century. The Wandering Minstrel is gone, and the Troubadour, and the Court of Love, and the King's