Dedication
To
MY DEAR CHILDREN
BRYAN AND WINNIE
Preface
For permission to include in this volume “The Awakening of the Dormouse,” “The Purple Emperor,” “The Harvest Mouse,” and “The Trivial Fortunes of Molge,” I have to thank the Editor of the Girl’s Realm, and for “The Story of a Field Vole,” and “The Passing of the Black Rat,” I am indebted to the courtesy of the Editor of Pearson’s Magazine.
DOUGLAS ENGLISH.
Hawley,
Dartford,
September, 1903.