** A Faggot of Stories FOR Little Folk. BY REV. P. B. POWER, M.A., Author of the "I Wills of the Psalms," etc. LONDON: WM. MACINTOSH, 24, PATERNOSTER ROW. One Shilling and Sixpence. 茶 PREFACE. To the little boys and girls, who read this book. MY DEAR CHILDREN, I have a little boy and girl who have a wonderful appetite for stories. I am sorry to say, that at bed time this appetite is keenest; though it is very seldom gratified then; for the best thing little children can do at bed time, is to go to bed; and if such a thing can be done, dream about nothing at all. Little heads do not get most quickly to sleep, when they are laid down on the pillow full of stories. Well! partly for this little boy and girl; and partly for other little boys and girls, who love stories too; I have collected into this volume sundry short tales, which have |