A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD NEW YORK
By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS
New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
Copyright, 1896, by
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
To
DOROTHY MOORE,
A LITTLE GIRL OF TO-DAY,
FROM
HER MAMMA'S FRIEND,
AMANDA M. DOUGLAS.
Newark, 1896.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. The Little Girl
CHAPTER II. Good-by to an Old Home
CHAPTER III. Fine Feathers for the Little Wren
CHAPTER IV. A Look at Old New York
CHAPTER V. Girls and Girls
CHAPTER VI. Miss Dolly Beekman
CHAPTER VII. Miss Lois and Sixty Years Ago
CHAPTER VIII. The End of the World
CHAPTER IX. A Wonderful Scheme
CHAPTER X. A Merry Christmas
CHAPTER XI. The Little Girl in Politics
CHAPTER XII. A Real Party
CHAPTER XIII. New Relations
CHAPTER XIV. John Robert Charles
CHAPTER XV. A Play in the Backyard
CHAPTER XVI. Daisy Jasper
CHAPTER XVII. Some of the Old Landmarks
CHAPTER XVIII. Sundry Dissipations
CHAPTER XIX. When Christmas Bells Were Ringing
A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD NEW YORK
CHAPTER I
THE LITTLE GIRL
"How would you like to go to New York to live, little girl?"
The little girl looked up into her father's face to see if he was"making fun." He did sometimes. He was beginning to go down the hill ofmiddle life, a rather stout personage with a fair, florid complexion,brown hair, rough and curly, and a border of beard shaved well away fromhis mouth. Both beard and hair were getting threads of white in them.His jolly blue eyes were mostly in a twinkle, and his good-natured mouthlooked as if he