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A ROUND DOZEN.

[Illustration: TOINETTE AND THE ELVES.

Down on the ground beside her, a tiny figure became visible, so small
that Toinette had to kneel and stoop her head to see it.--PAGE 234.]




A ROUND DOZEN.

BY

SUSAN COOLIDGE,

          AUTHOR OF "THE NEW YEAR'S BARGAIN," "WHAT KATY DID," "WHAT KATY
          DID AT SCHOOL," "MISCHIEF'S THANKSGIVING," "NINE LITTLE
          GOSLINGS," "EYEBRIGHT," "CROSS-PATCH,"
          "A GUERNSEY LILY."

[Illustration: QUI LEGIT REQIT]

          BOSTON:
          ROBERTS BROTHERS.
          1892.




          _Copyright, 1883_,

          BY ROBERTS BROTHERS.

          UNIVERSITY PRESS:
          JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.




                             TO

                    V    V    V    V    V

          _Five little buds grouped round the parent stem,
           Growing in sweet airs, beneath gracious skies,
           Watched tenderly from sunrise to sunrise,
           Lest blight, or chill, or evil menace them._

          _Five small and folded buds, just here and there
           Giving a hint of what the bloom may be,
           When to reward the long close ministry
           The buds shall blossom into roses fair._

          _Soft dews fall on you, dears, soft breezes blow,
           The noons be tempered and the snows be kind,
           And gentle angels watch each stormy wind,
           And turn it