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Title: The Doll and Her Friends
or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina

Author: Unknown

Illustrator: Hablot K. Browne

Release Date: June 18, 2007 [EBook #21861]

Language: English

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THE

DOLL AND HER FRIENDS;

OR

Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina.

BY THE AUTHOR OF
"LETTERS FROM MADRAS," "HISTORICAL CHARADES,"
ETC. ETC.

WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY HABLOT K. BROWNE,
ENGRAVED BY BAKER AND SMITH.

BOSTON:
TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS.

MDCCCLII.

PRINTED BY THURSTON, TORRY, AND EMERSON.

PREFACE.

My principal intention, or rather aim, in writing this little Book, was
to amuse Children by a story founded on one of their favorite
diversions, and to inculcate a few such minor morals as my little plot
might be strong enough to carry; chiefly the domestic happiness produced
by kind tempers and consideration for others. And further, I wished to
say a word in favor of that good old-fashioned plaything, the Doll,
which one now sometimes hears decried by sensible people who have no
children of their own.

The Doll and Her Friends.

CHAPTER I.

I belong to a race, the sole end of whose existence is to give pleasure
to others. None will deny the goodness of such an end, and I flatter
myself most persons will allow that we amply fulfil it. Few of the
female sex especially but will acknowledge, with either the smile or the
sigh called forth by early recollections, that much of their youthful
happiness was due to our presence; and some will even go so far as to
attribute to our influence many a habit of housewifery