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serve as a sample of them all. Little Josephine's grandfather

forgets to give her his annual gift of a half-sovereign. So she cannot buy her sister Nancy the pair of satin slippers she had

thought of. To make up, she ornaments an old pair of her mother's, which the girl had thought of, and this in so hideous a fashion, that Nancy has perforce to sit out the dances. But this

precipitates a declaration from a lover. So all comes right. In this way, Mrs. Walford makes little people help to bring about important results for grown-ups. The book has also the charm which Mrs. Walford knows how to give to what she writes.