Young Lucretia and Other Stories
"'LUCRETIA RAYMOND, WHAT DO YOU MEAN, PUTTING YOUR DRESS ON THIS WAY?'"
YOUNG LUCRETIA
AND OTHER STORIES
BY
MARY E. WILKINS
AUTHOR OF "A NEW ENGLAND NUN, AND OTHER STORIES"
"A HUMBLE ROMANCE, AND OTHER STORIES" ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
1892
Copyright, 1892, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS
- YOUNG LUCRETIA
- HOW FIDELIA WENT TO THE STORE
- ANN MARY; HER TWO THANKSGIVINGS
- ANN LIZY'S PATCHWORK
- THE LITTLE PERSIAN PRINCESS
- WHERE THE CHRISTMAS-TREE GREW
- WHERE SARAH JANE'S DOLL WENT
- SEVENTOES' GHOST
- LITTLE MIRANDY, AND HOW SHE EARNED HER SHOES
- A PARSNIP STEW
- THE DICKEY BOY
- A SWEET-GRASS BASKET
- MEHITABLE LAMB
- ADVERTISEMENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
- "'LUCRETIA RAYMOND, WHAT DO YOU MEAN, PUTTING YOUR DRESS ON THIS WAY?'"
- "'WHOSE LITTLE GAL AIR YOU?'"
- MR. LITTLE SELECTS THE THANKSGIVING TURKEY
- "THIS LITTLE GIRL SOON CAME FLYING OUT WITH HER CONTRIBUTION; THEN THERE WERE MORE"
- "SARAH JANE SAT DOWN BESIDE THE ROAD AND WEPT"
- "HE THRUST OUT HIS RIGHT HAND AND GAVE SEVENTOES A PUSH"
- THE VISIT TO CAP'N MOSEBY'S
- "'EAT 'EM!' ORDERED CAP'N MOSEBY"
- "A PARSNIP STEW"
- "THERE, AMONG THE BLOSSOMING BRANCHES, CLUNG THE DICKEY BOY"
- "SHE WAS A REAL INDIAN PRINCESS"
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