Dedication
TO PARENTS, GUARDIANS, AND TEACHERS.
The purpose of the “Glen Morris Stories” is to sow the seed of pure, noble, manly character in the mind of our great nation’s childhood. They exhibit the virtues and vices of childhood, not in prosy, unreadable precepts, but in a series of characters which move before the imagination as living beings do before the senses. Thus access to the heart is won by way of the imagination. While the story charms, the truth sows itself in the conscience and in the affections. The child is thereby led to abhor the false and the vile, and to sympathize with the right, the beautiful, and the true. To every parent, teacher, and guardian, who has affinity with these high purposes, the “Glen Morris Stories” are most respectfully inscribed by their fellow-laborer in the field of childhood.
Francis Forrester.
ORDER OF THE GLEN MORRIS STORIES.
Guy Carlton, the Story of a Boy who belonged to the “Try Company.”
Dick Duncan, the Story of a Boy who loved Mischief.
Jessie Carlton, the Story of a Girl who fought with little Impulse, the Wizard, and conquered him.
Walter Sherwood, the Story of an easy, good-natured Boy.
Kate Carlton, the Story of a vain Girl.
Principal Characters in This Story
Jessie Carlton, only daughter of a New York merchant residing at Glen Morris Cottage, Duncanville, a village near New York.
Emily and Charlie Morris, Jessie’s two cousins, visiting at Glen Morris Cottage.
Madge Clifton, Jessie’s protégé.
Carrie Sherwood, one of Jessie’s companions.
Mrs. Moneypenny, a poor widow, and her son Jack.
JESSIE CARLTON