First Page of the Table of Contents for Volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, Version 2

CONTENTS OP VOL. I.
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Chapter I. Breaking the news, ......................... 9

II. Gives sorrow to the winds,....................... 17

III. The worth of a finger-ring,........................30

IV. The bitter sweet of life, ......................................43

V. A peep Into the wide world,..................................51

VI. Night and morning,................................................67

VII. “ Strangers walk as friends,".............................. 78

VIII. Leaves us in the street,.........................................92

IX. The little Queen in the arm-chair............................ 107

X. Mud—and what came of it,........................................123

XI. Running away with the brook, ................................. 138

XII. Splitters,........................................................................150

XIII. Hope deferred,..................................................................158

XIV. Work not deferred,...........................................................150

XV. Mother Earth rather than Aunt Fortune,..............,.......176

XVI. Counsel, cakes, and Captain Parry,................. 189

XVII. DifflcuIty of doing right,............................................206

XVIII. Loses care on the Cat's back,......................................220

XIX. Showing that in some circumstances white is black,....................................................335