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Title: Little Mittens for The Little Darlings
Being the Second Book of the Series

Author: Frances Elizabeth Barrow

Release Date: May 8, 2009 [EBook #28716]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Aunt Fanny's new little Friend.]

LITTLE MITTENS

FOR

THE LITTLE DARLINGS:

BEING

THE SECOND BOOK OF THE SERIES.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

THE SIX NIGHTCAP BOOKS, ETC.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

443 & 445 BROADWAY.

LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.

1863.

Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
FANNY BARROW,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.

TO

ANNIE LOUISA,

MY NEW LITTLE FRIEND,

THESE

_Mitten Stories_

ARE

LOVINGLY DEDICATED.

CONTENTS.

THE LITTLE KITTENS, 7

THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, 39

LITTLE SALLIE'S LONG WORDS, 60

THE LITTLE NEW FRIEND, 108

ILKEN ANNIE, 117

THE LITTLE KITTENS.

Only to think! A letter from Aunt Fanny to the little ones, which begins
in this fanny way:

"YOU DARLING KITTENS--"

All the small children looked at Mary O'Reilly--who sat staring at the
fire, with her whiskers sticking up in the air, and then felt their
faces with their little fat hands. They did not find the least scrap of
a whisker anywhere on their round cheeks; and Pet said--"But I a ittle
girl; I not a kitty"--at which all the family laughed, and ran to kiss
her--and she thought she had been very smart, I can tell you; and
clapped her hands and said again--"No! I not a kitty!" and all the rest
of the little ones said they were not kittens, and for two minutes
there was such fun, everybody mewing like cats, and pattin