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This is the first page of the table of contents in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page begins with the title "CONTENTS" followed by a simple underline. The chapters listed on this page are: "Breaking the News", "Gives sorrow to the Winds", "The Worth of a Finger-ring", "The bitter-sweet of Life", "A peep into the Wide World", "Night and Morning", 'Strangers walk as Friends', "Leaves us in the Street", "The Little Queen in the Arm-Chair", "Mud-and what came of it", "Running away with the Brook", "Splitters", "Hope Deffered", "Work not Deferred", "Mother Earth rather than Aunt Fortune", "Counsel, Cakes, and Captain Parry", "Difficulty of Doing Right", "Loses care on the Cat's Back", "Showing that in some circumstances White is Black", "Headsick and Heartsick", "Footsteps of Angels", "Shows how Mr. Van Brunt could be sharp upon some things", "How Miss Fortune went out and Pleasure came in", and "Sweeping and Dusting". Each chapter has its corresponding Roman numeral on the left hand column and its corresponding page number on the right.

This is the second page of the table of contents in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The chapters on this page are: "Shows what noise a bee can make when it gets into the house", "Sundry things round a Pot of Chocolate", "The Jingling of Sleigh-bells", "Scraps-of Morocco and Talk", "Stockings, to which the 'bas bleu' was nothing", "Sunday at Ventnor", "Flowers and Thorns", "The Bank Note and George Washington", "A Gathering Cloud in the Spring Weather", "The Cloud Overhead", "This 'Working-day World", "The Brownie", "Timothy and his Master", "Wherin the Black Prince arrives opportunely", "Halcyon Days", "Prodigious", "the Clouds Return after the Rain", "One less in the Wide, Wide World", "Those that were left", "The little Spirit that haunted the Big House", "The Guardian Angel", "Something Turns up", "The Wide World grown Wider", "How old Friends were invested with the Regalia", "Thought is Free", "Trials without", "Trials within" and "Thou!". Each chapter has it's corresponding Roman Numeral on the left hand side of the page and the page number on the right connected by a line of elipses.

This is the first page of text in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The page begins with the novel's title approximately 1/4 down the page. A simple zierrat follows and proceed the Chapter. underneath the chapter is an excerpt from Longfellow's "It is not Always May". The chapter begins after the excerpt.

This is the front pastedown in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page is blank.

This is the recto of the front flyleaf in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons. This page is blank. There is a small pencil marking of "301" at the top of the page by a previous owner.

This is the verso of the front flyleaf with inscription in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. There is a stamp in the center top of the page with what appears to be a previous owners name written in the middle of the page.

This is the title page in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The page has only the title of the novel midway down the page in large font.

This is the verso of the title page in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page is blank.

This is the recto of the frontispiece in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page is blank.

This illustration, appearing as the frontispiece to the 1852 T. Nelson and Sons reprint, depicts the brook. A caption below the illustration reads, "The Brook." The illustration is dominated by foliage that extends along the sides, middle, and back of the image. A young girl or woman (possibly Ellen) stands leaning against a rock in the foreground near the small brook as several cattle graze nearby. In the background, a figure can be seen tending a flock of sheep (possibly Mr. Van Brunt). Behind the field where the sheep stand, a small house or cottage can be seen nestled against the tree line.