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A SEQUEL TO "ELSIE'S MOTHERHOOD"

By MARTHA FINLEY

Complete Authorized Edition

Published by arrangement with Dodd, Mead and Company

A.L. BURT COMPANY

PUBLISHERS New York Chicago

DODD, MEAD & COMPANY.

1877

1905, BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY.

Preface.

With this volume, bringing the Story of Elsie and her Children down to the present time, the series closes.

It was not by request of the author's personal friends, that either this or any one of the previous volumes was written, but in acquiescence with the demands of the Public the friends and admirers of Elsie herself; and we know that as child, as young girl, as wife and mother, she has had many friends who have been loath to part with her. May they find neither her nor her children less lovable in this, than in the earlier volumes, and may their society prove sweet, comforting and helpful to many readers and friends both old and new.

M.F.

Elsie's Children.

CHAPTER FIRST.