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PREFACE. ^ I ^HE Editor of the following Volume has, in compliance with the -L wishes of the Publishers, endeavoured to present her readers with " Gems " selected from all our chief National Poets. In doing this, she has tried to avoid as much as possible, without serious loss, the most...

LITTLE LOED FAUNTLEEOY. CHAPTER L A GREAT SURPRTSE. 'EDRIC himself knew nothing whatever about it. It had never been even mentioned to him. He knew that his papa had been an Englishman, because his mamma had told him so; but then his papa had died when he was so little a boy that he could not...

/^NCE upon a time there was a village shop. The name over the window was "Ginger and Pickles." It was a little small shop just the