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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Gypsy's Cousin Joy, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Gypsy's Cousin Joy Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Release Date: June 21, 2006 [EBook #18646] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GYPSY'S COUSIN JOY *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net GYPSY'S COUSIN JOY By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps New York Dodd, Mead and Company ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by GRAVES & YOUNG, in the Clerk's Office for the District Court of Massachusetts Copyright, 1895, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE. Having been asked to write a preface to the new edition of the Gypsy books, I am not a little perplexed. I was hardly more than a girl myself, when I recorded the history of this young person; and I find it hard, at this distance, to photograph her as she looks, or ought to look to-day. She does not sit still long enough to be "taken." I see a lively girl in pretty short dresses and very long stockings,--quite a Tom-boy, if I remember rightly. She paddles a raft, she climbs a tree, she skates and tramps and coasts, she is usually very muddy, and a little torn. There is apt to be a pin in her gathers; but there is sure to be a laugh in her eyes. Wherever there is mischief, there is Gypsy. Yet, wherever there is fun, and health, and hope, and happiness,--and I think, wherever there is truthfulness and generosity,--there is Gypsy, too. And now, the publishers tell me that Gypsy is thirty years old, and that girls who were not so much as born when I knew the little lady, are her readers and her friends to-day. Thirty years old? In
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