d, I imagined I s comforted me. I to me  tfulness terness of those sad days.

    Miss Sullivan ;t Fairiesquot; or of t ed tter carefully, and at last it came out t Mrs. Sop;Birdie and ; in 1888, t  t Breer. Mrs. o find  sold me t at t time, o amuse me by reading from various books, and alt remember reading quot;t Fairiesquot; any more t s sure t quot;Birdie and ;  t s time before sold ales, and t quot;Birdie and ; hem.

    tories tle or no meaning for me t trange  to amuse a little c noto amuse  recall a single circumstance connected ories, yet I cannot  I made a great effort to remember tention of eacurned. One tain, tamped upon my brain, time no one kne, least of all myself.

    speak to  quot;t Fairies,quot; probably because s once to read quot;Little Lord Fauntleroy,quot;  t remains t Miss Canbys story o me once, and t long after I ten it, it came back to me so naturally t I never suspected t it her mind.

    In my trouble I received many messages of love and sympat, except one, o t time.

    Miss Canby e kindly, quot;Some day you e a great story out of your o and o many.quot; But tortured by t e is not my oime, ter, even to my moterror, and I ences over and over, to make sure t I  read t not been for tent encouragement of Miss Sullivan, I trying to e altogether.

    I ;t Fairiesquot; since, also tters I e in o Mr. Anagnos, dated September 29, 1891, iments exactly like t time I ing quot;t King,quot; and tter, like many otains p my mind urated ory. I repr