r; 'we can see her as far as the corner.'" 2

MY PINK PET--

"One day I was playing as usual in my own little room, when
the door suddenly opened." 43

AN HONEST LITTLE MAN--

"Him has one, zank you." 55

THE SIX POOR LITTLE PRINCESSES--

"Ginevra found herself running upstairs, though not so fast
as the evening before, for fear of dropping the precious
parcel she held in her arms." 71

BASIL'S VIOLIN--

"In the pantry, when he took it into his head to pay a visit
to the footmen." 101

THE MISSING BON-BONS--

"'Yes,' said Maggie, 'I was getting the parasol.'" 139

LOST ROLLO--

"He stopped when he got up to us and began wagging his tail
and rubbing his head against us in the sweetest way." 160

THE BLUE DWARFS--

"They were sliding down the branches of the tree in all
directions." 195

GRANDMOTHER DEAR'S OLD WATCH

A FRAGMENT

PART I

"Those never loved
Who dream that they 'loved once.'"--E. B. BROWNING.

"YOU won't be long any way, dear Auntie?" said Sylvia with a little
sigh. "I don't half like your going. Couldn't you wait till the day
after to-morrow?"

"Or at least take me with you," said Molly, Sylvia's younger sister,
eagerly.

Auntie hesitated--she glanced up at as much of the sky as could be seen
through the lace-shrouded windows of their pretty Paris _salon_--it was
already beginning to grow dusky, for though only half-past three, it was
the thirty-first of December, and a dull day--and then turned with
decision towards the door.

"No, dears," she said; "I shall go more quickly alone. Sylvia's cold
would be none the better for going out so late, and I would rather you,
Molly, stayed with her. So good-bye, darlings; I shall not be long."

"I should not like to think of poor Sylvia sitting alone in the
gloaming, to-day of all days," said Auntie to herself as she made her
way down the three flights of handsome marble stairs which led to their
_appartement_. "I can see she is very sad--remembering how different it
was this day last year. And dear Molly's good spirits are an inestimable
blessing. Ah, my darlings, I may do my best, I _will_ do my be