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Title: Everybody's Lonesome
A True Fairy Story

Author: Clara E. Laughlin

Illustrator: A. I. Keller

Release Date: January 12, 2006 [EBook #17507]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "Both wanted to toast, and they took turns."]

Everybody's Lonesome

A True Fairy Story

By

CLARA E. LAUGHLIN

Author of "Evolution of a Girl's Ideal," "The Lady in Gray," etc.

Illustrated by

A. I. KELLER.

New York Chicago Toronto

Fleming H. Revell Company

London and Edinburgh

Copyright, 1910, by

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

To

Mabel Tallaferro,

The Faery Child

CONTENTS

I. DISAPPOINTED IN LIFE
II. YOUR OWN IS WAITING
III. FINDING THE FIRST FAIRY
IV. BEING KIND TO A TIRED MAN
V. GOING TO THE PARTY
VI. THE "LION" OF THE EVENING
VII. AT CANDLE-LIGHTIN' TIME
VIII. LEARNING TO BE BRAVE AND SWEET
IX. TELLING THE SECRET TO MOTHER
X. THE OLD WORLD AND THE KING
XI. A MEETING AND A PARTING
XII. AT OCEAN'S EDGE

ILLUSTRATIONS

"BOTH WANTED TO TOAST, AND THEY TOOK
TURNS" . . . . . . _Title_

". . . . FOUND HERSELF LOOKING INTO EYES
THAT SMILED AS WITH AN OLD FRIENDLINESS"

Everybody's Lonesome

I

DISAPPOINTED IN LIFE

Mary Alice came home quietly from the party. Most of the doors in the
house were closed, because it was cold, and the halls were hard to
heat. Mary Alice knew exactly what she should see and hear if she
opened that door at her right as she entered the house, and went into
the sitting-room. There was a soft-coal fire in the small,
old-fashioned grate under the old, old-fashioned white marble mantel.
Dozing--always dozing--on the hearth-rug, at a comfortable distance
from the fire, was Herod, the big yellow cat. In the centre of the
room, under the chandelier, was a table, with a cover of her mother's
fancy working, and a drop-light with a green shade. By the unbecoming