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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 her youth. She was happily married to the Advocate
Spyri. Later, the Franco-Prussian war evoked from her a book devised
for a charitable purpose, and the success of this volume revealed her
future. She died at her home in Zurich in 1891. Her fame has spread to
all countries, and her many books have delighted not only the children
for whom they were so artfully written, but they have become favorites
with lovers of children as well.

As to "Heidi," itself, wherever mountains are seen or read about, the
simple account of the early life of the Swiss child, amid the beauties
of her passionately-loved home, will be a favorite book for younger
readers and those who seek their good.

Johanna Spyri lived amidst the scenes she so gracefully described. In
all her stories she shows an underlying desire to preserve her young
readers alike from misunderstanding and the mistaken kindness that
frequently hinders the happiness and natural development of their lives
and characters.

Among her many works are the following: "Arthur and His Squirrel,"
"On Sunday," "From the Swiss Mountains," "A Scion of the House of
Lesa," "The Great and the Small All May Aid," "From Near and Far,"
"Cornelius," "Lost but Not Forgotten," "Gritli's Children," 2 volumes,
"Without a Country," "What Shall Then Become of Her?," "Sina," "From
Our Own Country," "Ten Stories," 2 volumes, "In Leuchtensa," "Uncle
Titus," "A Golden Saying," "The Castle Wildenstein," "What Really
Happened to Her," "In the Valley of the Tilonne," "The Hauffer Mill."

  M. H. M.




  CONTENTS


      I. Heidi's First Mountain Climb         13

     II. A New Home with Grandfather          22

    III. Little Bear and Little Swan          29

     IV. Shooting Down the Mountain Side      40

      V. A Railroad Journey                   52

     VI. Clara, the Patient Little Invalid    60

    VII. The Unfriendly Housekeeper           67

   VIII. Surprises for the Children           79

     IX. Mr. Sesemann Takes Heidi's Part      87

      X. Clara's Lovable Grandmother          91

     XI. Home-Sickness                        98

    XII. "My House Is Haunted"               102

   XIII. At Home Again on the Mountain       112

    XIV. The Coat with the Silver Buttons    126

     XV. A Great Disappointment              135

    XVI. The Doctor Comes with Presents      140

   XVII. Excursions Over the Mountains       149

  XVIII. A New Home for the Winter           157

    XIX. Heidi Teaches Obstinate Peter       167

     XX. A Strange Looking Procession        176

    XXI. Happy Days for the Little Visitor   191

   XXII. Wicked Peter and the Unlucky Chair  199

  XXIII. Good-Bye to the Beautiful Mountain  217




  ILLUSTRATIONS


  Up the Mountain to Grandfather (_color_) FRONTISPIECE

  Heidi Tenderly Stroked the Two Goats in Turn       27

  Heidi Drank in the Golden Sunlight, the Fresh
  Air and the Sweet Smell of the Flowers (_color_)   33

  Heidi Now Began to Give a Lively Description
  of Her Life with the Grandfather (_color_)         48

  "Why, There Is Nothing Outside but
  the Stony Streets"                                 72

  Miss Rottermeyer Jumped Higher Than She
  Had for Many Long Years (_color_)                  80

  Grandmother's Kind Advice Brings Comfort
  to Heidi (_color_)                                 96

  Heidi Learns to Make Doll Clothes                  99

  The Doctor Discovers Heidi's Home-Sickness        109

  "Our Milk Tastes Nicer Than Anything Else
  in the World, Grandfather"                        123

  It Was Not Long Before the Fir Trees Began
  Their Old Song (_color_)                          144

  A Strange-Looking Procession Was Making
  Its Way Up the Mountain (_color_)                 192

  The Little Invalid Finds That She Is
  Able to Walk                                      208

  "We Must Not Overdo It," He Said, Taking
  Clara Up in His Arms                              212

  Peter Went Rolling and Bumping Down
  the <DW72>                                         222

  "Are You Really My Little Clara?" (_color_)       232




[Illustration: HEIDI]




CHAPTER I

HEIDI'S FIRST MOUNTAIN CLIMB


On a bright June morning two figures--one a tall girl and the other
a child--could be seen climbing a narrow mountain path that winds up
from the pretty village of Mayenfeld, to the lofty heights of the Alm
mountain. In spite of the hot June sun the child was clothed as if to
keep off the bitterest frost. She did not look more than five years
old, but what her natural figure was like would be hard to say, for
she had on apparently two dresses, one above the other, and over these
a thick red woolen shawl. Her small feet were shod in thick, nailed
mountain-shoes.

When the wayfarers came to the hamlet known as Doerfli, which is
situated