Excerpt from The Broken Bud: Or, Reminiscences of a Bereaved Mother At the suggestion of friends, the writer has been induced to make selections from the manuscript, and, with some changes and additions, to present them in this form; not because it is assumed that there was anything peculiar in the life of the child, but simply in the hope of affording to other suffering hearts some slight consolation. Her deep interest in the experience of mothers, who have drank of this same bitter cup, and in the perusal of what on this subject has fallen in her way, is the ground of this hope.

Little incidents are taken from the original narra tive which may seem trivial to any but a mother. And the child's imperfect language is sometimes retained.

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