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.