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Title: Grandmother Dear
A Book for Boys and Girls

Author: Mrs. Molesworth

Release Date: April 2, 2007 [eBook #20963]

Language: English

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GRANDMOTHER DEAR

A Book for Boys and Girls

by

MRS. MOLESWORTH

Author of 'Carrots,' 'Cuckoo Clock,' 'Tell Me a Story'

Illustrated by Walter Crane

MacMillan and Co., Limited
St. Martin's Street, London
1932
First Edition November 1878. Reprinted December 1878
September and December 1882, 1886
1887, 1889, 1892, 1895, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1904, 1906, 1909, 1911
1918, 1920, 1932

Printed in Great Britain
by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh

[Illustration: 'I HOPE IT ISN'T HAUNTED.']

TO

_OUR_ 'GRANDMOTHER DEAR,'

A. J. S.

Maison Du Chanoine,
_October_ 1878.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. Making Friends

CHAPTER II. Lost in the Louvre

CHAPTER III. "_Where_ is Sylvia?"

CHAPTER IV. The Six Pinless Brooches

CHAPTER V. Molly's Plan

CHAPTER VI. The Apple-Tree of Stefanos

CHAPTER VII. Grandmother's Grandmother

CHAPTER VIII. Grandmother's Story (_Continued_)

CHAPTER IX. Ralph's Confidence

CHAPTER X. "That Cad Sawyer"

CHAPTER XI. "That Cad Sawyer"--Part II.

CHAPTER XII. A Christmas Adventure

CHAPTER XIII. A Christmas Adventure--Part II.

CHAPTER XIV. How this Book came to be written

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Sylvia lost in the Louvre

"Whose Drawer is this?"

Under the Apple-Tree

"Zwanzig--Twenty Schelling, that Cup"

In the Coppice

"Good-Bye again