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Title: Neighbor Nelly Socks
Being the Sixth and Last Book of the Series

Author: Sarah L. Barrow

Release Date: August 3, 2009 [EBook #29597]

Language: English

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THE SOCK STORIES,

BY "AUNT FANNY'S" DAUGHTER.

NEIGHBOR NELLY SOCKS:

BEING

THE SIXTH AND LAST BOOK OF THE SERIES.

BY

"AUNT FANNY'S" DAUGHTER,

THE AUTHOR OF "THE LITTLE WHITE ANGEL."

NEW YORK:
LEAVITT & ALLEN, 21 & 23 MERCER ST.
1863.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
S. L. BARROW,

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

JOHN F. TROW,
PRINTER, STEREOTYPER, AND ELECTROTYPER,
50 Greene Street, New York.

TO

MY DEAR FATHER,

TO WHOSE KINDLY AND CHARMING WAYS WITH THE

"LITTLE FOLK"

I OWE THE CHARACTER OF "NEIGHBOR OLDBIRD,"

THIS BOOK

IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED.

CONTEXTS OF VOL. VI.

PAGE

NEIGHBOR NELLY. IN THREE STORIES.

1. THE OLD BACHELOR'S STORY, 7

2. THE BIG BOY'S STORY, 45

3. THE FAT GENTLEMAN'S STORY, 86

POSTSCRIPT BY THE OLD BACHELOR, 90

CONCLUSION, 132

NEIGHBOR NELLY.

IN THREE STORIES.

THE OLD BACHELOR'S STORY.

IN the city block where I live, there are just twenty-four houses on the
other side of the street, and twenty-four on this side, six lamp posts,
and eight ailanthus trees in green boxes. Oh, dear me, what a tiresome
row! That's what I thought