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From "R. L. Stevenson's Edinburgh Days."
By Eve Blantyre Simpson. (Hodder & Stoughton.)

ALISON CUNNINGHAM
(Stevenson's Nurse "Cummy").

"My second mother, my first wife.
The angel of my infant life—
From the sick child, now well and old,
Take, nurse, the little book you hold!"
Dedication of "A Child's Garden of Verses":
"To Alison Cunningham. From her Boy."

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