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[Illustration: Frontispiece THE TWO WAYS.]


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                         DOWN THE SNOW STAIRS;

                                  OR,

                    FROM GOOD-NIGHT TO GOOD-MORNING.

                           BY ALICE CORKRAN,

           Author of “Margery Merton’s Girlhood,” etc., etc.

               WITH SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY GORDON BROWNE.


                    [Illustration: Publisher’s Logo]


                               NEW YORK:
                         A. L. BURT, PUBLISHER.


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                               CONTENTS.

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               CHAP.                                 PAGE

                  I. Christmas Eve                      1

                 II. Kitty and Johnnie                 17

                III. Down the Snow Stairs              34

                 IV. Naughty Children Land             48

                  V. “To Daddy Coax’s House”           67

                 VI. Daddy Coax                        85

                VII. On the Other Side of the         112
                       Stream

               VIII. Pictures in the Fog              122

                 IX. Love Speaks                      151

                  X. In the Wood                      162

                 XI. Kitty Dances with Strange        177
                       Partners

                XII. “Eat or Be Eaten”                192

               XIII. Play-Ground, and After           206

                XIV. “I and Myself”                   215

                 XV. Was it Johnnie’s Face?           229

                XVI. At the Gate                      242


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                         LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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                  The Two Ways                   FRONTISPIECE.

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