Excerpt from Mary Gray: A Tale for Little Girls I AM frequently surrounded by a group of little boys and girls, who interest me very much when they are good. This is gene rally the casefthough sometimes, when they suffer idleness or forgetfulness of their duty to creep in, my enjoyment of their company is sadly interrupted, and I am then obliged to. Use my authority to set all in good order again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.