Driven Back to Eden

(1885)

THIS VOLUME

IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED TO

"JOHNNIE"

~

Preface

Months since, with much doubt and diffidence, I began this simple
story. I had never before written expressly for young people, and I
knew that the honest little critics could not be beguiled with words
which did not tell an interesting story. How far I have succeeded,
the readers of this volume, and of the St. Nicholas magazine,
wherein the tale appeared as a serial, alone can answer.

I have portrayed no actual experience, but have sought to present
one which might be verified in real life. I have tried to avoid all
that would be impossible or even improbable. The labors performed by
the children in the story were not unknown to my own hands, in
childhood, nor would they form tasks too severe for many little
hands now idle in the cities.

The characters are all imaginary; the scenes, in the main, are real:
and I would gladly lure other families from tenement flats into
green pastures.

E. P. R.

CORNWALL-ON-THE-HUDSON,

August 10, 1885.

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