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The Grey Story Book

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The Grey Story Book (1905)
by Katherine Merritte Yates
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By KATHERINE M. YATES


What the Pine Tree Heard. Strathmore booklet, postpaid, 50 cents.

The Grey Story Book. Octavo, boards, postpaid, 50 cents.

On the Way There. Octavo, white leatherette, postpaid, 50 cents.

At the Door. Octavo, white leatherette, postpaid, 50 cents.


K. M. YATES & COMPANY
46 East Fifty-third Street
Chicago

The
Grey Story Book

By
Katherine M. Yates
Author of
"What the Pine Tree Heard"

Chicago
K. M. YATES & CO.
1905

Copyright, 1904
by
Katherine M. Yates

A Word to the Grown-ups

LITTLE folks must read, and it seems that it were better that the stories intended for them should be such as will bring the facts and practical uses of Christian Science into their thoughts, rather than those which fail to teach the true sense of prayer and its purpose. We know that God answers prayer; but we must learn to go to Him "in Spirit and in Truth."

You may feel called upon to criticise the precocity of the little folks herein pictured, but they have several reasons for being as they are. In the first place, the stories are written for children and not for grown-up critics, and the effort is to interest the little one, and at the same time to let him see how he can utilize what he has learned in Science, in his everyday affairs. I do not know that this can be accomplished by better means than through the mouths of children who are meeting problems of their own, even though the processes of reasoning may seem, especially to one who is not a Christian Scientist, too advanced for the child who brings them forth.

Secondly, one who has not been thrown among children who are being brought up in the knowledge of Christian Science, has no idea of their ready and intelligent adoption of Science words and phrases, and the logical conclusions which they are able to draw from the statements of Truth, particularly when they are lovingly trained to this process of reasoning.

Hoping, therefore, that the little folks who live between these covers will be graciously received, I send by them the greeting of a sister in Christian Science.

Contents

Page
In the Tall Grass 9
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp 15
What Margie Knew 26
How Walter was Treed 31
The Grey and White Kitten 44
Around the Corner 51
Who Owned the Rabbit? 61
The Skates and Charley 66


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1951, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 72 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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