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Title: Little Frida
A Tale of the Black Forest

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: March 6, 2010 [EBook #31521]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Looking anxiously at the babe in her arms.
_See page 42._]

LITTLE FRIDA

A TALE OF THE BLACK FOREST

BY THE AUTHOR OF
"LITTLE HAZEL, THE KING'S MESSENGER"
"UNDER THE OLD OAKS; OR, WON BY LOVE"
ETC. ETC.

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, LTD.

LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK

CONTENTS

I. LOST IN THE WOODS 9

II. THE WOOD-CUTTER'S HUT 16

III. FRIDA'S FATHER 23

IV. THE PARSONAGE 29

V. THE WOODMEN'S PET 36

VI. ELSIE AND THE BROWN BIBLE 42

VII. IN DRINGENSTADT 46

VIII. THE VIOLIN-TEACHER AND THE CONCERT 54

IX. CHRISTMAS IN THE FOREST 68

X. HARCOURT MANOR 76

XI. IN THE RIVIERA 86

XII. IN THE GREAT METROPOLIS 95

XIII. IN THE SLUMS 104

XIV. THE OLD NURSE 115

XV. THE POWER OF CONSCIENCE 127

XVI. THE STORM 131

XVII. THE DISCOVERY 137

XVIII. OLD SCENES 151

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Looking anxiously at the babe in her arms _Frontispiece_

Ere the child consented to go to bed she
opened the little "brown book" 17

"Come, Frida,"