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This collection offers numerous short tales and sketches for young readers that blend light humor, affectionate domestic scenes, and gentle moral lessons. Entries mix personal reminiscence with imaginative vignettes, character portraits, and animal anecdotes, often highlighting family bonds, kindness, and simple pleasures of everyday life. Length and tone vary from playful episodes to reflective pieces, with an emphasis on empathy, practical wisdom, and approachable language suited to shared reading or solitary enjoyment.

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Title: A New Story Book for Children

Author: Fanny Fern

Release date: November 3, 2021 [eBook #66655]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Mason Brothers, 1864

Credits: Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

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LITTLE EFFIE.—Page 305.

A
NEW STORY BOOK
FOR CHILDREN.

BY
FANNY FERN.
NEW YORK:
MASON BROTHERS, 7 MERCER STREET;
BOSTON: MASON & HAMLIN;
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1864.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
MASON BROTHERS,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
JOHN F. TROW,
Printer and Stereotyper,
50 Green Street.
THIS BOOK
IS
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
TO
“Little Effie.”