Front Matter
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Frontispiece
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Title Page
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Table of Contents
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The riding school; or, a cure for conceit
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A snake in the grass
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The boy and the deer
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The schoolmistress
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Frank and his kite
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Grandpapa's ball
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The boy of Egremond
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The birds and St. Valentine
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Reflection in Autumn
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The contented family
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On seeing the portrait of a beloved deceased child
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The true story of web spinner
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The widow's son
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The dove set free
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The migration of the grey squirrels
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Isabel, the lacemaker
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The Sabbath day and Sabbath school
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Lines on a sun-flower
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The half-boarder
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Epitaph extraordinary
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To my child at play
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Infancy
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The fisherman's family
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A child's prayer
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To Amelia Read on her thirteenth birthday
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One of the vanities of human wishes
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The dew-drop
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The story of the two pigeons; or, to oblige quickly is to oblige twice
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The invalid's pipe
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The English cottage door
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A sister's lamentation
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Hymn to the innocents
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An early recollection
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The rainbow
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Young William's deathbed
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The wish
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What is sin?
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The virgin and child
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The gift
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Playing with time
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The two soliloquies
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The wind in a frolic
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The son of Arminius
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To the tiger flower
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The prophet
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Mirth and beauty
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To my boy Tom
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First inquiries
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The child's lament
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To a favourite child
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Children's loves
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Good bye
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