DAISY

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PUBLISHER’S NOTE

This little story, by Miss Marshall Saunders,author of “Beautiful Joe,” appeared some yearsago in England, in the interests of a benevolentinstitution. It has seemed worthy of awider publication, and hence it is brought outin its present dress. The infantile grace andquaint ways of the little child; her influence inshaping a somewhat warped life, with all itsincidental lessons, and the final happy ending ofit all, will give the little story, we are sure, awide audience and a cordial reception.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

A Baby’s Grace

ONE evening, Mrs. Drummond, the tired, careworn woman whopresided over our boarding house,glanced down the well-spread table, and informedus that the next day we were tohave a new boarder—a Mr. Robertson,a young bank clerk who had lately comefrom England to our prosperous Canadiantown.

I knew the lad by reputation, and the nextmorning when he sauntered into the dining room,I looked at him carefully. Poor boy, his eyewas heavy, and his step languid. In his foolishendeavors to “see life,” he was fast losing thepurity of heart and mind with which he had quittedhis far-away home, and it was making its markupon him in a way not to be mistaken.

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