LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
1907

TO
MY DEAR NEPHEW
CHARLES VAUGHAN

TO CHARLIE
AND ALL THE OTHER LITTLE
BOYS AND GIRLS

My dear Charlie,—

Yon are very fond of stories; and so, I think, are all the other little boys and girls that I have ever known, and most of the grown-up people too. When you grow older, if you still like them—and I think you will—you will find that there are stories everywhere if only you are able to see them.

In this little book they are not quite the same kind as those that your Auntie used to tell you. I think they are nicer, for they are about things that have really happened; and the boys and girls and grown-up people that you read about in them were real people.

Some of those stories were so interesting, and some of them so beautiful, that they were written down for other people to read; and that is how history-books came to be made.

I hope that you will like to read about the people who lived long ago, and that these little tales may show you that history is made up of stories about people just like ourselves.

HILDA T. SKAE.