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Title: Funny Big Socks
Being the Fifth Book of the Series

Author: Sarah L. Barrow

Release Date: August 3, 2009 [EBook #29596]

Language: English

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THE SOCK STORIES,

BY "AUNT FANNY'S" DAUGHTER.

FUNNY BIG SOCKS:

BEING

THE FIFTH BOOK OF THE SERIES.

BY

"AUNT FANNY'S" DAUGHTER,

THE AUTHOR OF "THE LITTLE WHITE ANGEL."

NEW YORK:
LEAVITT & ALLEN, 21 & 23 MERCER ST.
1863.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by

S. L. BARROW,

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

JOHN F. TROW,
PRINTER, STEREOTYPER, AND ELECTROTYPER,
50 Greene Street, New York.

TO

THAT GENIAL GOOD MAN

AND PROFOUND PHILOSOPHER,

THE REV. DR. S. I. PRIME,

I DEDICATE THIS

BOOK.

CONTENTS OF VOL. V.

PAGE

STORM STORIES 7

THE CABBAGES 42

THE GOLD STONE 75

THE PHILOSOPHERS' TOUR 108

STORM STORIES.

FIRST EVENING.

HOW it did rain, to be sure! Up the long street, and down the long
street nothing was to be seen but large mud puddles, while the gutter
ran like a little river, and gushed with a loud sound into the sewer
mouth.

That was a rain indeed! but in the warm rooms it was comfortable enough.
Books and pretty pictures lined the walls on all sides but one, where
the large window was, the recess filled with blooming flowers; they
smelt so sweetly!

There, at a table that was covered with a green cloth, sat a literary
man. His head w