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Title: Young Lucretia and Other Stories

Author: Mary E. Wilkins

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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
1893
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

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"

YOUNG LUCRETIA

"Who's that little gal goin' by?" said old Mrs. Emmons.

"That--why, that's young Lucretia, mother," replied her daughter Ann,
peering out of the window over her mother's shoulder. There wa