and I dearly love you all. It has been a great pleasure to me to arrange
this gift book for you, and I hope you will like the stories and
ballads, and spend many happy hours over them. One story, "The Middle
Daughter," was originally published in Harper's "Round Table," and is
inserted here by consent of Messrs. Harper and Brothers. Two of the
ballads, "Horatius," and "The Pied Piper," belong to literature, and you
cannot afford not to know them, and some of the fairy stories are like
bits of golden coin, worth treasuring up and reading often. Miss Mary
Joanna Porter deserves the thanks of the boys for the aid she has given
in the making of this volume, and the bright stories she has contributed
to its pages.

A merry time to you, boys and girls, and a heart full of love from your
steadfast friend,

M.E.S.



CONTENTS.


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1. The Clover Leaf Club of Bloomdale. By M.E. Sangster 9

2. The Lighthouse Lamp. By M.E. Sangster. 71

3. The Family Mail-bag. By Mary Joanna Porter 73

4. A Day's Fishing. By Mary Joanna Porter 79