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The Little Fig-tree Stories

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A collection of short stories for children set in a sunlit mountain garden and neighboring rural scenes, where young fig trees, orchard trees, animals, and families populate small episodes. Narratives range from an allegorical tale of fig trees learning about bloom and patience to everyday adventures such as picnics, dreamlike horse stories, visits to a camp, and life at a grandfather's farm and garret. The tone is gentle and observational, attentive to seasonal change, domestic kindness, and the quietly comic follies of nature and people. Brief, illustrated vignettes emphasize growth, belonging, and the comfort of familiar places.

THE
LITTLE FIG-TREE STORIES

BY

MARY HALLOCK FOOTE

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1899