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Title: Funny Little Socks
Being the Fourth Book
Author: Sarah. L. Barrow
Release Date: August 3, 2009 [EBook #29595]
Language: English
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[Illustration: THE CHILDREN GIVING GAWOW A DANCE.]
THE SOCK STORIES,
BY "AUNT FANNY'S" DAUGHTER.
FUNNY LITTLE SOCKS:
BEING
THE FOURTH 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 T. TROW,
PRINTER, STEREOTYPER AND ELECTROTYPER,
60 Greene Street, New York.
TO
DARLING LITTLE
ALLIE BABY,
These Funny Little Socks
ARE AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED.
CONTENTS OF VOL. IV.
PAGE
LITTLE MOTHER, 7
DOLLS AT HOUSEKEEPING, 40
THE FAIRY WISH, 102
LITTLE MOTHER.
ONE day Kitty's mother called her little daughter to her, and taking
both her dimpled dots of hands in her own soft white ones, said, "Kitty,
my darling, I am going to New York this morning, to see your dear
grandma', and I shall have to leave the house in your charge until I
come back. Do you think you can be my little housekeeper for to-day?"
"Oh yes, mamma! I should like that so much! I will keep house as well as
you--that is, 'most, not quite!" and Kitty jumped up and down for joy
at being trusted with such important affairs.
"You must take care of dear little Luly and Walter, you know; see that
they have th
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