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Title: Daisy's Necklace
And What Came of It

Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Release Date: December 13, 2009 [EBook #30668]

Language: English

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DAISY'S NECKLACE:
And What Came of It.

(A LITERARY EPISODE.)

BY

T. B. ALDRICH.

The little dogs and all,
........ see, they bark at me!

KING LEAR.

NEW-YORK:
DERBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU STREET.
CINCINNATI: H. W. DERBY & CO.

1857.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856,
BY DERBY & JACKSON,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New-York.

TO
C. L. F.,
THE NOBLE MERCHANT AND THE GOOD FRIEND,
THIS BURLESQUE OF THINGS IN GENERAL,
IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.

CONTENTS.

PROLOGUE.

CHAPTER I.

THE LITTLE CASTLE-BUILDERS.

The House by the Sea--The Round Window--God's eyes in Flowers--The
Day-Dreamers--A Picture--An Angel--Old Nanny--On the Sea-Shore--
Shell-Hunting--Bell's Freak and Mortimer's Dream--Asleep.

CHAPTER II.

THE DEAD HOPE.

Time's Changes--Fall-down Castles--Little Bell waiting--When will
Father come Home?--Little Bell weary--What the Sea said--Nevermore.

CHAPTER III.

SOUL-LAND.

Autumn and Winter--By the Fireside--Where little Bell is going--Nanny
sings about Chloe--Bell reads a poem--The flight of an Angel--The
Funeral--The good Parson--The two Grave-stones.

CHAPTER IV.

A FEW SPECIMENS OF HUMANITY.

Down Town--Messrs. Flint & Snarle--Tim, the Office Boy, and the pale
Book-keeper--The Escritoire--The Purloined Package--Mr. Flint goes
Home--Midnight--Miss Daisy Snarle--The Poor Author.

CHAPTER V.

DAISY SNARLE.

Sunday morning--Harvey Snarle and Mortimer--A Tale of Sorrow--The
Snow-child--Mortimer takes Daisy's hand--Snarle's death.

CHAPTER VI.

THE PHANTO