Excerpt from A List of the Elsie Books: And Other Popular Books What a storm! There will be no going out to-day even for the early stroll about the grounds with papa, sighed Lucilla Raymond one December morning, as she lay for a moment listening to the dash of rain and sleet against her bedroom windows. Ah, well! I must not fret, knowing who appoints the changes of the seasons, and that all He does is for the best, her thoughts ran on. Besides, what pleasures we can all have within doors in this sweetest of homes and with the dearest and kindest of fathers! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.