MILDRED AT HOME
A LIST OF THE ELSIE BOOKS AND
OTHER POPULAR BOOKS
BY
MARTHA FINLEY
ELSIE DINSMORE.
ELSIE'S HOLIDAYS AT ROSELANDS.
ELSIE'S GIRLHOOD.
ELSIE'S WOMANHOOD.
ELSIE'S MOTHERHOOD.
ELSIE'S CHILDREN.
ELSIE'S WIDOWHOOD.
GRANDMOTHER ELSIE.
ELSIE'S NEW RELATIONS.
ELSIE AT NANTUCKET.
THE TWO ELSIES.
ELSIE'S KITH AND KIN.
ELSIE'S FRIENDS AT WOODBURN.
CHRISTMAS WITH GRANDMA ELSIE.
ELSIE AND THE RAYMONDS.
ELSIE YACHTING WITH THE RAYMONDS.
ELSIE'S VACATION.
ELSIE AT VIAMEDE.
ELSIE AT ION.
ELSIE AT THE WORLD'S FAIR.
ELSIE'S JOURNEY ON INLAND WATERS.
ELSIE AT HOME.
ELSIE ON THE HUDSON.
ELSIE IN THE SOUTH.
ELSIE'S YOUNG FOLKS.
MILDRED KEITH.
MILDRED AT ROSELANDS.
MILDRED'S MARRIED LIFE.
MILDRED AND ELSIE.
MILDRED AT HOME.
MILDRED'S BOYS AND GIRLS.
MILDRED'S NEW DAUGHTER.
CASELLA.
SIGNING THE CONTRACT AND WHAT IT COST.
THE TRAGEDY OF WILD RIVER VALLEY.
OUR FRED.
AN OLD-FASHIONED BOY.
WANTED, A PEDIGREE.
THE THORN IN THE NEST.
MILDRED AT HOME;
WITH SOMETHING ABOUT HER RELATIVES
AND FRIENDS.
A SEQUEL TO MILDRED'S MARRIED LIFE.
BY
MARTHA FINLEY,
Author of the "Elsie Books," "Mildred Keith,"
"Mildred and Elsie," "Signing the
Contract," etc., etc.
NEW YORK:
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY,
Publishers.
Copyright, 1884, by Dodd, Mead & Company.
Chapter First.
"A word spoken in due season, how good is it!"—Prov. 15:23.
"I'm to be dressed in white, mammy, withblue sash and ribbons, papa says, and to goback to him as soon as you are done withme."
"Is you, honey? but co'se you is; youmos' neber wears nuffin but white when dewarm days comes; an' massa can't do widouthis darlin' pet, now all de res' am gone."
"No; nor I without him," Elsie said,tears springing to her eyes. "Oh, don'tthese rooms seem lonely, mammy? Don'tyou miss Annis?"
"Co'se, honey, co'se I dose; but tankde Lord, I'se got my own darlin' chile lef'."
"And I have you and papa left," returned[Pg 4]the little girl, smiling through hertears, "and that's a great deal; papa alone ismore than half of all the world to me, andyou know I could never do without you,mammy."
"Yo' ole mammy hopes you'll alwaystink like dat, honey," said Chloe, taking outthe articles needed for the little girl's toilet."'Pears like ole times come back," she remarke