Excerpt from The Story Book for Girls and Boys First she went into the garden, and amused her self by running about through the different walks, and pulling a flower here and a flower there. Soon tired of this, she sat down listlessly on a grass plat, and spent nearly half an hour in looking for a four-leaved clover. Unsuccessful in this, the little girl next resorted to the swing under the apple tree, which her father had made for her, and swung herself for a good while. O dear! I wish I had some one to play with me! She at length said, getting down from the swing, tired with herself, and tired of everything around her. It was more than an hour since Anna had lain aside her work, heartily tired of it; and now she came back into the house, as heartily tired of play; but still, with no disposition to resume her sewing. I wish father would come home, she said, leaning upon the door, and fixing her eyes in the direction from which he always returned in the evening. 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.