[Gutenberg 22404] • The Story of the White-Rock Cove

The Story of the White-Rock Cove-"to be written down all from the very beginning"-is urgently required by certain youthful petitioners, whose importunity is hard to resist; and the request is sealed by a rosy pair of lips from the little face nestling at my side, in a manner that admits of no denial. "From the beginning; "-that very beginning carries me back to my own old schoolroom, in the dear home at Braycombe, when, as a little boy between nine and ten years old, I sat there doing my lessons.