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Title: The Bad Family and Other Stories

Author: Mrs. Fenwick

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THE BAD FAMILY

AND OTHER STORIES

MRS FENWICK

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THE DUMPY BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

Selected by E. V. LUCAS, and each having End-papers specially
designed by Mrs. FARMILOE

I. THE FLAMP, THE AMELIORATOR, and THE SCHOOLBOY'S APPRENTICE.
_Written by_ E. V. LUCAS

II. MRS. TURNER'S CAUTIONARY STORIES

III. THE BAD FAMILY. By Mrs. FENWICK

_Other Volumes in the Series are in preparation_

THE DUMPY BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.

NO. III. THE BAD FAMILY.
BY MRS. FENWICK.

The Bad Family; & Other Stories

BY
MRS. FENWICK

LONDON: GRANT RICHARDS
1898

_CONTENTS_

PAGE

_Introduction_ ix

_The Bad Family_ 1

_The Good Family_ 15

_Foolish Fears_ 29

_The Broken Crutch_ 39

_The Journal; Or, Birthday Gifts_ 45

_The Basket of Plumbs_ 65

_The Choice of Friends_ 75

_Cousin James and Cousin Thomas_ 87

_The Disasters of Impatience_ 97

_The Deaf and Dumb Boy_ 109

_Limby Lumpy_ 119

_The Oyster Patties_ 135

Introduction

Mrs. Fenwick, like Mrs. Turner (some of whose Cautionary Stories have
already been published in this series), lived and wrote at the beginning
of this century. Mrs. Turner practised verse, Mrs. Fenwick prose. I can
tell nothing of Mrs. Fenwick's life, except that among her books were
_Infantine Stories_, the _Life of Carlo_, _Mary and her Cat_, _Presents
for Good Boys and Girls_, _Rays from the Rainbow_ (an easy system of
teaching grammar),