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Title: A Little Girl in Old New York

Author: Amanda Millie Douglas

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A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD NEW YORK

By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS

New York
Dodd, Mead and Company

COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

To
_DOROTHY MOORE_,
A LITTLE GIRL OF TO-DAY,
FROM
HER MAMMA'S FRIEND,
AMANDA M. DOUGLAS.
NEWARK, 1896.

CONTENTS

I. THE LITTLE GIRL

II. GOOD-BY TO AN OLD HOME

III. FINE FEATHERS FOR THE LITTLE WREN

IV. A LOOK AT OLD NEW YORK

V. GIRLS AND GIRLS

VI. MISS DOLLY BEEKMAN

VII. MISS LOIS AND SIXTY YEARS AGO

VIII. THE END OF THE WORLD

IX. A WONDERFUL SCHEME

X. A MERRY CHRISTMAS

XI. THE LITTLE GIRL IN POLITICS

XII. A REAL PARTY

XIII. NEW RELATIONS

XIV. JOHN ROBERT CHARLES

XV. A PLAY IN THE BACKYARD

XVI. DAISY JASPER

XVII. SOME OF THE OLD LANDMARKS

XVIII. SUNDRY DISSIPATIONS

XIX. WHEN CHRISTMAS BELLS WERE RINGING

A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD NEW YORK

CHAPTER I

THE LITTLE GIRL

"How would you like to go to New York to live, little girl?"

The little girl looked up into her father's face to see if he was
"making fun." He did sometimes. He was beginning to go down the hill of
middle life, a rather stout personage with a fair, florid complexion,
brown hair, rough and curly, and a border of beard shaved well away from
his mouth. Both beard and hair were getting threads of white in them.
His jolly blue eyes were mostly in a twinkle, and his good-natured mouth
looked as if he might be laughing at you.

She studied him intently. Three months before she had been taken to the
city on a visit, and it was a great event. I suspect that her mother d