PREFACE.

in offering this little volume to the public, the
Author thinks it due to them and herself to state
that it isa child’s book, and nothing more. It
was commenced some years ago, as one of a series
of tales then in course of publication. From
causes wholly unimportant to the public, that
series was discontinued, and this manuscript was
consequently laid aside. It has lately been re-
sumed and completed, and is now presented as
a simple narrative of the events of childhood,
intended to show the beauty and excellence, even
in its earliest dawn upon the soul, of that charity
which “envieth not, vaunteth not itself, is not
puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly.”