Excerpt from Getting Well: Tales for Little Convalescents Dear Little Children, from whose pretty facesIllness has chased the rose of health away, Making a stillness in the halls and placesWhere you have loved to ramble in your play;Sweet would it be to gather you about me, Feeling your arms around my neck entwine, Kwing you could t ever fear or doubt me, With your sweet eyes fixed eagerly on mine. Then I would tell you many a queer old story, Sing you the songs and hymns of olden timeWhich once I sang to others, who before meLong sat to listen to my tale or rhyme;But they are gone; and you - you are so many, I cant ever hope to see you all, And so I send you, Willie, Sue, and Fanny, And all the rest, these tales for great and small. 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 techlogy 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.