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[Illustration: The good-natured Giant]




THE

TWO STORY MITTENS

AND THE

LITTLE PLAY MITTENS:


BEING

THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE SERIES.


BY

AUNT FANNY,


AUTHOR OF THE SIX NIGHTCAP BOOKS, ETC.


          NEW YORK:
          D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
          443 & 445 BROADWAY.
          LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.
          1867.

  Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
  FANNY BARROW,
  In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
      for the
  Southern District of New York.




                        I DEDICATE

          THESE TWO STORIES AND THIS LITTLE PLAY

                      TO MY FRIEND

                    MR. FRANK A----,

who makes fun of me before my face and speaks well of me behind my back.

I don't mind the first a bit; and as long as he continues to practise
the second, we will fight under the same flag.

              LONG MAY IT AND HE WAVE!




CONTENTS.


                                                      PAGE

          MORE ABOUT THE MITTENS,                        7

          THE PARTY LILLIE GAVE FOR MISS FLORENCE,      12

          THE FAIRY BENEVOLENCE,                        45

          MASTER EDWARD'S TRIAL,                        80

          THE LITTLE PLAY MITTENS,                     139




MORE ABOUT THE MITTENS.


THE mittens were coming bravely on. Some evenings, Aunt Fanny could not
send a story; and then the little mother read an entertaining book, or
chatted pleasantly with