Chapter I: Front Matter

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DOWN THE SNOW STAIRS;

OR,

FROM GOOD-NIGHT TO GOOD-MORNING.

BY ALICE CORKRAN,

Author of “Margery Merton’s Girlhood,” etc., etc.

WITH SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY GORDON BROWNE.

NEW YORK:
A. L. BURT, PUBLISHER.

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CONTENTS.

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CHAP. PAGE

I. Christmas Eve 1

II. Kitty and Johnnie 17

III. Down the Snow Stairs 34

IV. Naughty Children Land 48

V. “To Daddy Coax’s House” 67

VI. Daddy Coax 85

VII. On the Other Side of the 112
Stream

VIII. Pictures in the Fog 122

IX. Love Speaks 151

X. In the Wood 162

XI. Kitty Dances with Strange 177
Partners

XII. “Eat or Be Eaten” 192

XIII. Play-Ground, and After 206

XIV. “I and Myself” 215

XV. Was it Johnnie’s Face? 229

XVI. At the Gate 242

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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PAGE

The Two Ways FRONTISPIECE.

Restless Kitty 1

Johnnie and His Art Treasures 5

The Snow-Man 16

Down the Wide Staircase 16

Kitty’s Tears 22

Sliding Down the Balusters 28

The Snow-Man Visits Kitty 35

Following the Snow-Man 39

The Drollest Creature 40

Kitty and the Elf 45

Broken Toy Land 49

A Dismal Chorus 51

“A black creature glared at 54
her”

A Disagreeable Acquaintance 56

Little Cruel-Heart 61

A Good Fight 64

The Song of the Sillies 69

“I am not vain” 73

A Jam-Tart Too Many 78

Kitty and Daddy Coax 87

A Lively Wig 89

Sweetening the Fury 95

All Jam and No Powder 98

Little Spitfire 100

The Fight for the Flute 108

The Shadow of the Rod 111

“Peering out of the mist” 114

The White-Robed Stranger 119

Entangled in the Web 123

The Tramp of Weary Feet 126

Ice-Children 130

The Right One to Kick 133

A Hard Lesson 139

“Oh, to be hungry again!” 141

Faces! Faces!—a World of 145
Faces!

The Cry for the Kiss 152

Kitty’s Guardian Child 155

Kitty’s Naughty-Self Goblin 161

The Hanging Dwarf 166

Goblin Sloth 169

“Real yawning” 172

“At one bound she sprang 176
across”

The Frog-Like One 178

Step, Wriggle, and Bow 181

The Little Courtiers 185

Kitty’s Musings 188

Apple-Pie Corner 193

The Boy with the Suetty Voice 199

Struggling Onward 204

I and Myself 217

Mr. Take-care-of-himself 220

“A cripple like Johnnie” 226

A Merry Game 232

The Goblin Crew 236

Out of the Mist 241

At the Locked Gate 244

The Mist of Punishment Land 248

Home Again 251

“It is a secret” 254

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