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Title: Last Words
A Final Collection of Stories

Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing

Illustrator: H. D. Murphy

Release Date: June 6, 2008 [EBook #25710]

Language: English

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[Illustration: (signed) Juliana Horatia Ewing.]

LAST WORDS.

A Final Collection of Stories.

BY

JULIANA HORATIA EWING,

AUTHOR OF "JAN OF THE WINDMILL," "SIX TO SIXTEEN," "A GREAT
EMERGENCY," "WE AND THE WORLD," "JACKANAPES, AND OTHER TALES,"
"MELCHIOR'S DREAM, BROTHERS OF PITY, AND OTHER TALES," "LOB
LIE-BY-THE-FIRE, THE BROWNIES, AND OTHER TALES," "MRS.
OVERTHEWAY's REMEMBRANCES," "A FLAT IRON FOR A FARTHING."

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. D. MURPHY._

BOSTON:

ROBERTS BROTHERS.

1891.

_Copyright, 1891_,

BY ROBERTS BROTHERS.

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PREFACE.

"Mary's Meadow" first appeared in the numbers of _Aunt Judy's
Magazine_ from November 1883, to March 1884. It was the last serial
story which Mrs. EWING wrote, and I believe the subject of it arose
from the fact that in 1883, after having spent several years in moving
from place to place, she went to live at Villa Ponente, Taunton, where
she had a settled home with a garden, and was able to revert to the
practical cultivation of flowers, which had been one of the favorite
pursuits of her girlhood.

The Game of the Earthly Paradise was received with great delight by
the readers of the story; one family of children adopted the word
"Mary-meadowing" to describe the work which they did towards
beautifying hedges and bare places; and my sister received many
letters of enquiry about the