THE MITTEN SERIES
Out stalked the Griffin, smoking his Pipe, and with himall the fashionable Beasts of the neighborhood.MORE MITTENS:
WITH
THE DOLL'S WEDDING
AND
OTHER STORIES.
BEING
THE THIRD BOOK OF THE SERIES.
BY
AUTHOR OF THE SIX NIGHTCAP BOOKS, ETC.
NEW YORK:
443 & 445 BROADWAY.
LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.
1863.
Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
FANNY BARROW,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for theSouthern District of New York.
THIS VOLUME
IS
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
TO
"ILKEN ANNIE,"
WHO
LIVES ON STATEN ISLAND.
CONTENTS.
| A LETTER FROM AUNT FANNY, | 7 |
| THE DOLL'S WEDDING, | 10 |
| WHAT CAME OF GIPSYING, | 25 |
| THE CHILD HEROINE, | 50 |
| AUNT MARY, | 69 |
| LITTLE PETER, | 75 |
| THE STORY TOLD TO WILLIE, | 102 |
[7]A LETTER
FROM AUNT FANNY.
My Darling Children:
I wrote these stories, as I have already told you, some years ago, andtook a great deal of pains with them. I called them "Life Among theChildren;" when, lo and behold! somebody else had written a book withthe very same name, but very different stories, and I never knew oneword about it.
You may believe how sorry I was to take this pretty title when itbelonged to another; and I was very thankful that I could get at theprinter and have it changed.
What do you think of "The Doll's Wedding" for a name? I like it verymuch, because "Lily," whose dolls were married, is one of my[8] particularpets; and what I have related, took place precisely a