CONTENTS.


THE ORPHANS
LAZY LAWRENCE
THE FALSE KEY
SIMPLE SUSAN
THE WHITE PIGEON
THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT
ETON MONTEM
FORGIVE AND FORGET
WASTE NOT, WANT NOT; OR, TWO STRINGS TO YOUR BOW
OLD POZ
THE MIMIC
THE BARRING OUT; OR, PARTY SPIRIT
THE BRACELETS
THE LITTLE MERCHANTS
TARLTON
THE BASKET WOMAN



THE ORPHANS.

Near the ruins of the castle of Rossmore, in Ireland, is a small cabin,
in which there once lived a widow and her four children. As long as she
was able to work, she was very industrious, and was accounted the best
spinner in the parish; but she overworked herself at last, and fell ill,
so that she could not sit to her wheel as she used to do, and was obliged