Excerpt from Cedar Brook Stories, Vol. 4: Or the Clifford Children Elliot still calls her, is like a joyous bird caroling forth her Sweet notes, the life and sunshine of her happy home. Annie is a tall, dignified girl of fourteen years; still pale, but not sickly; shy, sensitive, yet self-pos sessed the companion of her mother, and the gentle, patient assistant of her sisters Edith and Lulu. Edith is, like Frank, small for her age, but much stouter, her cheeks as rosy, her face as roguish and full of fun, as ever. She is steadier, though, than she was two years ago, and has learned to prefer a quiet walk with Winnie, or read an interesting. 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.