Harvey [missing from book]

"The Cutest Things Yon Ever Saw"

January with His Perpetual Laugh and Fiddle

The Darkies' Quarters




A Little Florida Lady

CHAPTER I

The Journey to Florida.

New York was in the throes of a blizzard. The wind howled and
shrieked, heralding the approach of March, the Wind King's month of the
year. Mrs. Davenport stood at a second story window of a room of the
Gilsey House, and looked down idly on the bleak thoroughfare. She was
a young-looking woman for her thirty-five years, and had an extremely
sweet face, denoting kindliness of heart.

The hall door opened, and Elizabeth Davenport entered, carrying in her
arms a little ball of fluffy gray.

Elizabeth, or Beth, as she was more commonly called at the age of
seven, might have been compared to a good fairy had she not been so
plump. She almost always radiated sunshine, and her face was generally