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This is a volume of eleven beautiful and original little fairy tales. - Summary by Carolin

This story is an honest record of what we, who are all writers, and all very intimate friends, have seen and heard as we looked on at the lives of certain people in whom we are deeply interested. We used to talk about these people when we sat together after the day's work was done.<br /><br />"They don't understand one another," said one of the ministers, "else there wouldn't be much trouble."<br /><br />"I think the little girl means better than she is supposed to," said Grace.<br /><br />"And I know the two boys are not half so mean as they are made out to be," declared Paranete.<br /><br />"They are like a great many people in this world," interposed the other minister, "working at cross purposes; making failures of their lives, just because they do not try to put themselves in one another's places."<br /><br />"Making failures, also, because they are trying to carry their own burdens without the help of the only real Helper," said one of the ladies. <br /><br />"O, yes! of course," spoke out both ministers; "that is really the foundation source of their troubles, as of most others." <br /><br />Said Faye Huntington: "Let's write a book about them! One that will help others, as well as them. We can tell their story, but tell it in such a way that they won't even recognize themselves; they will only know that it fits, somehow, and helps." (Summary taken from the preface)

3Moral Pirates

By William Livingston Alden

Excerpt: “… you and two or three other fellows might make a splendid cruise in a row-boat. You could have a mast and sail, and you could take provisions and things, and cruise from Harlem all the way up into the lakes in the Northern woods. It would be all the same as piracy, except that you would not be committing crimes, and making innocent people wretched.”…”We’d have a gun and a lot of fishing-lines, and we could live on fish and bears. There’s bears in the woods, you know.” [End] ~ Thus four teenage boys set out for adventures being a different sort of pirate - Moral Pirates. - Summary by Laurie Banza