in the journey thru life and
the struggle with society of a little girl of nine."

"Depicts youthful human nature as one who knows and loves it. Her
'Phoebe and Ernest' studies are deservedly popular, and now, in
'Janey,' this clever writer has accomplished an equally charming
portrait."--_Chicago Record-Herald._

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List of Corrections Made by the Transcriber:

(Words to be emphasized are enclosed by pound signs [#].)

Page 6: impident (square and compact, that chunky and yet that tender,
that no right-minded person could desire him to be changed to an
#impudent# young scaramouch like young Michael Ragstroar four doors)

Page 55: scarcly (letter remains, and has been seen by the present
writer and others. The dexterity of the thing almost passes belief, only
a few #scarcely# perceptible traces of the old writing being visible, the
length of)

Page 65: mankleshelf (directness. But he was destined to puzzle his
audience by his keen interest in something that was on the #mantleshelf#,
his description of which seemed to relate to nothing this lady's
recollection of)

Page 76: see to the sacks, ("He #sees# to the sacks," said Dave.)

Page 84: starn (in your antecedents, surely it would be these two
leisurely rowers and the superior person in the #stern#, with the oilskin
cape?)

Page 139: bliassed (want of shrewdness when he visited Sapps Court. She
had been #biased# towards this suspicion by the fact that the man, when he
first referred to Sapps Court, had spoken the name as though)

Page 277: backelors (it any hinterland of discussion of the ethics of
Love, provocative of practical application to the lives of old maids and
old #bachelors#--if the one, then the other, in this case--strolling in a
leisurely)

Page 320: [blank] (property did a man's heart good to see, nowadays. The
man was Uncle Mo, who got out of the house #i#n plenty of time to stop
Michael half-murdering the marauder, as soon as he considered the
latter)

Page 346: infaturated (If I had ever been engaged, or on the edge of
it--I never have, really and truly!--and the #infatuated# youth had ... had
complicated matters to that extent, I never should have been able to)

Page 360: up up (premises it was engendered in, was necessary to hold
the roof #up# tempory, for fear it should come with a run. It was
really a'most nothing in the manner of speaking. You just shov