. The one I knew the best of all : a memory of the mind of a child . the one I knew the best of all. It was viii Preface only to be a short sketch in my first intention, butwhen I besran it I found so much to record which o seemed to me amusing and illustrative, that theshort sketch became a long one. After all, it wasnot myself about whom I wras being diffuse, but alittle unit of whose parallels there are tens ofthousands. The Small Person is gone to that un-discoverable far-away land where other SmallPersons have emigrated—the land to whose re-gretted countries there wandered, some years ago
. The one I knew the best of all : a memory of the mind of a child . the one I knew the best of all. It was viii Preface only to be a short sketch in my first intention, butwhen I besran it I found so much to record which o seemed to me amusing and illustrative, that theshort sketch became a long one. After all, it wasnot myself about whom I wras being diffuse, but alittle unit of whose parallels there are tens ofthousands. The Small Person is gone to that un-discoverable far-away land where other SmallPersons have emigrated—the land to whose re-gretted countries there wandered, some years ago,two little fellows, with picture faces and goldenlove-locks, whom I have mourned and longed forever since, and whose going—with my kisses ontheir little mouths—has left me forever a sadderwoman, as all other mothers are sadder, whatso-ever the dearness of the maturer creature left be-hind to bear the same name and smile with eyesnot quite the same. As I might write freelyabout them, so I feel I may write freely abouther. FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT. MAY, CONTENTS CHAPTER I. The One I Knew the Best of All, PAGE / CHAPTER II. The Flower Book and Testament, . 21 CHAPTER /I/. The Back Garden of Eden, PAGE x Contents CHAPTER and tbe Doll, 44 CHAPTER Square, 70 CHAPTER Confidence Betrayed, 90 CHAPTER Secretaire, 709 CHAPTER Party, 729 CHAPTER Wedding, . 142 CHAPTER Strange Thing, 756 CHAPTER —and tbe First One, . . ij6 Contents xi CHAPTER XII. PAGE Edith Somerville—and Raw Turnips, . 208 CHAPTER XIII. Christopher Columbus, ...... 228 CHAPTER XIV. The Dry ad Days, 257 CHAPTER XV. My Object is Remuneration, .... 286 CHAPTER XVI. And So She Did, 313 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Small Person and the Secretaire, . FrontispieceVignette, ........ Contents ix / am not holding her She Said, . .... 8 Yes He Said, / should have to pick you up and carry you at once to prison ...... 20 When She Stood by Her Grand
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