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    The Little Nightcap Letters
    The Little Nightcap Letters
    The Little Nightcap Letters
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    The Little Nightcap Letters

    By Aunt Fanny

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Little Nightcap Letters - Aunt Fanny

      Project Gutenberg's The Little Nightcap Letters., by Frances Elizabeth Barrow

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Little Nightcap Letters.

      Author: Frances Elizabeth Barrow

      Release Date: August 26, 2009 [EBook #29812]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LITTLE NIGHTCAP LETTERS. ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      The Children coaxing Mr. Appleton to tell where Aunt Fanny lived.

      THE

      LITTLE

      NIGHTCAP LETTERS.

      BY THE AUTHOR OF

      NIGHTCAPS, NEW NIGHTCAPS, BABY NIGHTCAPS,

      ETC., ETC.

      NEW YORK:

      D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

      90, 92 & 94 GRAND ST.

      LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.

      1869.

      Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by

      FANNY BARROW,

      In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the

      Southern District of New York.

      Dedication.

      THESE LITTLE NIGHTCAP LETTERS

      ARE LOVINGLY DEDICATED

      TO MY DAUGHTER,

      LITTLE ALICE.

      CONTENTS.

      NIGHTCAP LETTER No. 2 FROM AUNT FANNY.

      You little darling:

      What do you think happened the other day? why, a lady came to see me, bringing with her just about the dearest little Kitty that ever lived. Not a Kitty with whiskers, and four paws, and a fur coat, but a sweet little girl named Kitty, with lovely blue eyes, a great many soft brown curls, and the same number of sweet rosy lips that you have. How many is that, I should like to know? I had never seen the lady, or the little girl before, and of course I did not know their names until afterwards. So I bowed, and smiled, and looked as pleasant as ever I could.

      Then Kitty said in a sweet trembling voice—"Is you Aunt Fanny?"

      I laughed a little bit, and answered, Yes, dear.

      What happened then? Why in a moment she ran up to me, climbed upon a chair close by,—threw her arms around my neck, and gave me such a precious little smothering hug, and so many sweet kisses, with her soft face pressed with all her might upon my cheek, that I almost lost my breath, and was perfectly astonished, as well as delighted.

      Then the little girl said: "Oh thank you, dear Aunt Fanny, twenty-ten times, for my Baby Nightcaps! I love them! I love you! I love you dreadfully! Oh! how glad I was to hear that! I was glad twenty-ten times. It was sweeter to me, than a whole basket full of sugar candies would be to you—and I kissed her on both her round dimpled cheeks, and sat down, and took her on my lap, and hugged her to my heart, and said—what a darling! what a dear little thing!"

      Then I looked at the lady. She was laughing and blushing, and I was laughing and blushing, and the little girl was laughing and blushing. Don't you think we three were having a very funny kind of time? I did.

      At last the lady said: I hope you will excuse me for bringing Kitty to see you; but she begged so hard for 'just one little look at Aunt Fanny,' I could not bear to refuse her. I am afraid she has taken a great deal more than 'one little look.' I hope she has not kissed a piece out of your cheek?

      At this, Kitty looked up in great alarm at my cheek—but seeing that it was not bleeding, and had no hole in it, she patted it softly with her little tender dimpled hand, and said: Aunt Fanny, Aunt Fanny, in a little speck of a whisper to herself a great many times.

      Then I

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