"They are not ordinary children, and I frankly confess I cannot manage them," said Aunt Jane. "As to Iris, she is without exception the most peculiar child I ever came across; I know, of course, she is a good child--I would not say a word to disparage her, for I admire her strength--but when a child considers that she has got a mission----" "I know all about that," said David Delaney. "Iris thinks that she is to be a little mother to the others--those were Evangeline's last words to her. Well, Jane, it is a heavy burden for such a little creature to carry, but the fact of her obeying her mother's last injunction really saved little Diana's life." THE END. End of Project Gutenberg's A Little Mother to the Others, by L. T. Meade