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Title: Miss Muffet's Christmas Party

Author: Samuel McChord Crothers

Illustrator: Olive M. Long

Release Date: April 15, 2010 [EBook #31997]

Language: English

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By Samuel M. Crothers

MEDITATIONS ON VOTES FOR WOMEN.
HUMANLY SPEAKING.
AMONG FRIENDS.
BY THE CHRISTMAS FIRE.
THE PARDONER'S WALLET.
THE ENDLESS LIFE.
THE GENTLE READER.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: THE AUTOCRAT AND HIS FELLOW
BOARDERS. With Portrait.
MISS MUFFET'S CHRISTMAS PARTY. Illustrated.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK

MISS MUFFET'S CHRISTMAS PARTY

[Illustration: _A visitor came_ (page 4)]

MISS MUFFET'S CHRISTMAS PARTY

BY

SAMUEL McCHORD CROTHERS

ILLUSTRATIONS BY OLIVE M. LONG

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT 1902 BY SAMUEL McCHORD CROTHERS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published November, 1902_

TO MARGERY
BECAUSE, AMONG OTHER THINGS,
WE LIKE THE SAME PEOPLE

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

_A visitor came_ (_page 4_) Frontispiece
_Chapter Heading_ 1
_Mrs. Muffet had read this in a book_ 2
_To meditate on the passage of time_ 3
_The kind of thing that Miss Muffet sat on_ 4
_Fairly jumped off her tuffet_ 6
_Chapter Heading_