TheStoryof aDewdrop

J. R. Macduff D D

WithFOUR COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

London Marcus Ward & Co Belfast
1881

FOREWORDS.

To Charlie.

Dewdrop is a small affair;and the world would not bethe least interested, nor a bitthe wiser, by knowing how I come affectionatelyto dedicate the story I havewritten about it to you. I may tell youit was one line of eleven words, readone night from a musty old volume oflast century, which suggested it.

Everybody must have their play-hoursand moments of recreation. Ithink I have gone back to other andmore serious work all the better afterwriting a page or two of what follows.I am happy thus to have had my littleholiday along with you in this idealregion of quaint conceits.

Shall we hope that others may shareour pleasure?

Let us try.

The Story of
A DEWDROP.

CONTENTS

List of
ILLUSTRATIONS.