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Title: The Big Nightcap Letters
Being the Fifth Book of the Series

Author: Frances Elizabeth Barrow

Release Date: August 26, 2009 [EBook #29813]

Language: English

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THE

BIG NIGHTCAP LETTERS;

BEING THE

FIFTH BOOK OF THE SERIES.

BY THE AUTHOR OF
THE SIX NIGHTCAP BOOKS, "AUNT FANNY'S STORIES,"
ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON & COMPANY,
443 & 445 BROADWAY.
LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.
1861.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
FANNY BARROW,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the
Southern District of New York.

TO

----, AND ----,

YOU KNOW WHO;

THIS BOOK IS MOST LOVINGLY

=Dedicated=.

PREFACE.

IT has always been my favorite theory, that the goodness and beauty of a
truly Christian life in children could be taught quite as effectually by
combining the gay with the grave, as by being altogether grave; for I
chanced to remember that I invariably omitted all the latter portions of
the story-books bestowed upon me when a child; and I have reason to
believe that human nature is pretty much the same now as then.

In each of these little stories, it has been my single aim to inculcate
a desire in children to _do_ good, to _be_ good, and to seek prayerful
assistance from the One source of all goodness--their Father in Heaven.

And now one word about the sixth book of this series. Trembling with a
deep responsibility, I have ventured to write a fairy story, (that
enchanted ground for the little ones,) through the whole of