THE AUTHOR

 

THE

YOUNG VISITERS

OR, MR SALTEENA'S PLAN

 

 By

By

DAISY ASHFORD

 

WITH A PREFACE BY

J. M. BARRIE

 

NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

 

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PREFACE

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The "owner of the copyright" guarantees that "The Young Visiters" is the unaided effort in fiction of an authoress of nine years. "Effort," however, is an absurd word to use, as you may see by studying the triumphant countenance of the child herself, which is here reproduced as frontispiece to her sublime work. This is no portrait of a writer who had to burn the oil at midnight (indeed there is documentary evidence that she was hauled off to bed every 

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