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Alternative spelling and hyphenation have been retained as they appearin the original publication. Changes have been made as follows:
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Page 131. tobogganned down a steep changed to tobogganed down a steep
SOAP-BUBBLE STORIES
Soap-Bubble Stories.
FOR CHILDREN.
BY
FANNY BARRY,
Author of "The Fox Family," "The Obstinate Elm Leaf," "The Bearsof Wundermerk," etc.
New York:
JAMES POTT & CO., 14 & 16, ASTOR PLACE.
1892.
To
VERA, ELSIE,
OSKAR, OLGA, ERIK,
NEVA, JESSIE,
LEO, DOROTHY, CLAUDE
AND
HERBERT.
It was twilight and the children tired of playing gatheredround the fire.
Outside, the snow fell softly, softly; and the bare trees shooktheir branches in the keen air. The pleasant glow of the blazinglogs lighted up the circle of happy faces, and peopled the distantcorners with elfin shadows.
All the afternoon the children, pipe in hand, with soap sudsbefore them, had been blowing airy bubbles that caught the gleamsof a hundred flying rainbows—but now in the fading daylight, thepipes were put aside, and they threw themselves down on the fur rug,and looked with thoughtful eyes into the caverns of the fire.
"What can we do now?" they cried, "Won't you make ussome bubbles?"
And someone sitting in the shadow, who had watched andadmired their handiwork; whipped up some white froth in a fairybasin, and taking a pipe, she blew them some bubbles.
Not so beautiful as the children's own, with their pure reflectionsof the light and sunshine—but the best she could fashion withthe materials she had at hand; for the only soap she could findwas Imagination, and her pipe was a humble black pen.
