e but
brief, and these are rare merits in a memoir. As to the moral--it is
not far to seek. Dear children, for whom I hoot! avoid greediness. If
Slyboots had eaten tit-bits in moderation, he might be sitting on the
poker to this day. I have great pleasure in making his brief career
public to the satisfaction of his gallant friend, and I should be glad
to hear that the latter had got his step by the same post as his
Owlhoot.

The second letter is much farther from literary excellence than the
first. I fear this little boy plays truant from school as well as
taking apples which do not belong to him. It is high time that he
learnt to spell, and also to observe the difference between _meum_ and
_tuum_. From not being well grounded on these two points, many boys
have lost good situations in life when they grew up to be men.

"deer mister howl,--as you say you see behind your bak i spose its
you told varmer jones of me for theres a tree with a whole in it just
behind the orchurd he wolloped I shameful and I'll have no more of his
apples they be a deal sowerer than yud think though they look so red,
but do you call yourself a childerns friend and tell tails i dont i
can tell you.

TOM TURNIP."

[PUBLISHER'S NOTE. Mrs. Ewing did not live to complete "The Owl
in the Ivy Bush." This, and "Tiny's Tricks and Toby's Tricks"
were first published after her death.]

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_Roberts Brothers Juvenile Books._

DEAR DAUGHTER DOROTHY.

_BY MISS A. G. PLYMPTON._

With seven illustrations by the author. Small 4to. Cloth.

PRICE, $1.00.

[Illustration: DEAR DAUGHTER DOROTHY.]

"The child is father of the man,"--so Wordsworth sang; and here
is a jolly story of a little girl who was her father's mother in
a very real way. There were hard lines for him; and she was
fruitful of devices to help him along, even having an auction of
the pretty things that had been given her from time to time, and
realizing a neat little sum. Then her father was accused of
peculation; and she, sweetly ignorant of the ways of justice,
went to the judge and labored with him, to no effect, though he
was wondrous kind. Then in court she gave just the wrong
evidence, because it showed how poor her father was, and so
established a presumption of his great necessity and desperation.
But the _Deus ex machina_--the wicked partner--arrived at the