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Title: A Christmas Posy

Author: Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth

Release Date: July 9, 2008 [eBook #26015]

Language: English

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A CHRISTMAS POSY

by

MRS MOLESWORTH

With illustrations by Walter Crane

[Illustration: GRANDMOTHER DEAR'S OLD WATCH

"Come out here for a moment, Sylvia," she called to her sister; "we can
see her as far as the corner--" P. 2]

[Illustration]

London: MacMillan And Co. 1888

TO

MY TWO LITTLE FRIENDS

Julia and Isabel

TWIN-SISTERS

LONDON, _29th February 1888_.

CONTENTS

PAGE

"GRANDMOTHER DEAR'S" OLD WATCH 1

MY PINK PET 28

AN HONEST LITTLE MAN 53

THE SIX POOR LITTLE PRINCESSES 61

BASIL'S VIOLIN 77

THE MISSING BON-BONS 124

LOST ROLLO 147

THE BLUE DWARFS 177

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

"GRANDMOTHER DEAR'S" OLD WATCH--

"'Come out here for a moment, Sylvia,' she called to her
siste