LITTLE FOLKS ASTRAY.

BY SOPHIE MAY


"To give room for wandering is it
That the world was made so wide."

1872



TO

MY YOUNG FRIEND,

EMMA ADAMS.

"JOHNNIE OPTIC."




TO PARENTS.

Here come the Parlins and Cliffords again. They had been sent to bed and
nicely tucked in, but would not stay asleep. They "wanted to see the
company down stairs;" so they have dressed themselves, and come back to
the parlor. I trust you will pardon them, dear friends. Is it not a
common thing, in this degenerate age, for grown people to frown and