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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.

COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY MARY HALLOCK FOOTE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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AUTHOR’S NOTE

These stories were originally published in the St. Nicholas Magazine, and are reprinted here by kind permission of the Century Company.

The profits of the volume are dedicated to the Children’s Hospital of San Francisco.