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[Illustration: UP THE MOUNTAIN TO GRANDFATHER]




  HEIDI

  _by_

  JOHANNA SPYRI



  ILLUSTRATED BY
  ALICE CARSEY



  WHITMAN PUBLISHING CO.
  RACINE.. CHICAGO





  COPYRIGHT 1916 BY
  WHITMAN PUBLISHING CO.
  RACINE.. CHICAGO




INTRODUCTION


There is here presented to the reader a careful translation of "Heidi,"
one of the most popular works of the great Swiss authoress, Madam
Johanna Spyri. As particulars of her career are not easily gathered, we
may here state that Johanna Heusser was born at Zurich, June 12, 1827.
She wrote nothing in