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Title: Daisy

Author: Elizabeth Wetherell

Release Date: January 31, 2009 [EBook #27949]

Language: English

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DAISY.

BY
ELIZABETH WETHERELL,

AUTHOR OF
"THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD," "QUEECHY,"
ETC., ETC.

[Illustration: Floral Squiggle]

LONDON:

WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED,
WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.
NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE.

[Illustration: Frontis "'And you love Jesus, Darry,' I said."
_Page 59_ ]

CONTENTS.

PAGE
CHAPTER I.
MISS PINSHON 9

CHAPTER II.
MY HOME 27

CHAPTER III.
THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE 45

CHAPTER IV.
SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE 68

CHAPTER V.
IN THE KITCHEN 97

CHAPTER VI.
WINTER AND SUMMER 119

CHAPTER VII.
SINGLEHANDED 149

CHAPTER VIII.
EGYPTIAN GLASS 165

CHAPTER IX.
SHOPPING 185

CHAPTER X.
SCHOOL 205

CHAPTER XI.
A PLACE IN THE WORLD 226

CHAPTER XII.
FRENCH DRESSES 244

CHAPTER XIII.
GREY COATS 275

CHAPTER XIV.
YANKEES 297

CHAPTER XV.
FORT PUTNAM 320

CHAPTER XVI.
HOPS 338

CHAPTER XVII.
OBEYING ORDERS 356

CHAPTER XVIII.
SOUTH AND NORTH 379

CHAPTER XIX.
ENTERED FOR THE WAR 392

DAISY.

CHAPTER I.

MISS PINSHON.

I want an excuse to myself for writing my own life; an excuse for the
indulgence of going it all over again, as I have so often gone over
bits. It has not been more remarkable than thousands of others. Yet
every life has in it a thread of present truth and possible glory. Let
me fo