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Title: Baby Nightcaps

Author: Frances Elizabeth Barrow

Release Date: April 4, 2009 [EBook #28493]

Language: English

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[Illustration: The Night-cap Family out for a walk.

I'll tell you all about it in my next book.]

BABY NIGHTCAPS.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"NIGHTCAPS," "LIFE AMONG THE CHILDREN," "AUNT
FANNY'S STORIES," &c.

NEW-YORK:
D. APPLETON & COMPANY,
443 & 445 BROADWAY.
LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.
1860.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by

FANNY BARROW,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of New York.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

A NIGHTCAP LETTER FROM AUNT FANNY, 7

THE STORY TOLD TO MINNIE, 31

LILLIE'S SAYINGS AND DOINGS; OR,
THE EFFECTS OF A GOOD EXAMPLE, 51

JACK AND HIS FRIENDS, 94

LITTLE HELEN, 115

HOW LITTLE SUSIE WAS LOST AND FOUND, 120

Dedication.

THESE BABY NIGHTCAPS ARE FOR
YOU!
YOU DEAR LITTLE DARLING!

A NIGHTCAP LETTER FROM AUNT FANNY.

_You dear little darling_:

A long time ago, that is, long for such a little speck of a
child as you, just before last Christmas, I wrote a story book
called "Nightcaps." I called it this funny name, because poor
little lame Charley to whom all the stories were told, called
them his "nightcaps," as he and his sisters and brothers had
to go to bed, the moment a story was finished for the evening.

Did you read them? I am afraid they were _too old_ for you,
you dear little kitten!

But since last Christmas, I have heard some of the funniest
little bits of stories! funny enough to make all the dimple