TO MY GRANDCHILDREN KA THLEEN 

 AND PATRICK. 



DEDICA TE this booklet to you, my 

 little Kathleen, because you have been 

 very good to your grandmother and to 

 me ; and to you, little Patrick, because you are 

 the unconscious hero who attacked a whole regiment 

 of hornets with your wooden paddle, and came 

 off victorious, without a thought of the terrible 

 odds against you. I unite your two names on 

 this leaf, because you have aided me, while writing 

 those wJiich follow, to bear a great sorrow with 

 faith and hope. 



E. M. 



London, 



August, 1887. 



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