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Release date: November 8, 2023

Original publication: Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1870

The Riverdale Books.

THE LITTLE MERCHANT.

A STORY FOR LITTLE FOLKS.

BY OLIVER OPTIC,

BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, 1870.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by WILLIAM T. ADAMS In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

ELECTROTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

THE LITTLE MERCHANT.

There were rich people and poor people in Riverdale, as there are in almost every other place, and my story begins in the humble cottage of a poor widow. It was not a pretty white cottage, with green blinds, and a nice flower garden in front of it, but it was a dingy old house that had never been painted. Nothing had been done to make it look pretty, and it seemed hardly fit to live in.

The poor widow's name was Jane White. Her husband, who had been a laborer, died only a year before, and left her with a family of four children. She had to work very hard to get money enough to buy food and clothes for her little boys and girls, and you may be sure they did not have any nice things to eat, nor any fine clothes to wear.

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