Produced by Jason Isbell, Emma Morgan Isbell, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This file is gratefully uploaded to the PG collection in honor of Distributed Proofreaders having posted over 10,000 ebooks. * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | This document reproduces the text for the Gift Edition of | | Heidi, if you would like to see the illustrations, margin | | art, and decorations, the html version is recommended. | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this | | text. For a complete list, please see the end of this | | document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * HEIDI JOHANNA SPYRI [Illustration: (Heidi)] [Illustration: (Peter)] HEIDI GIFT EDITION [Illustration: WAVING HER HAND AND LOOKING AFTER HER DEPARTING FRIEND TILL HE SEEMED NO BIGGER THAN A LITTLE DOT _Page 228_] HEIDI BY JOHANNA SPYRI TRANSLATED BY ELISABETH P. STORK _WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY_ CHARLES WHARTON STORK, A.M., PH.D. _14 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY_ MARIA L. KIRK GIFT EDITION PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1919 COPYRIGHT, 1915. BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PRINTED BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A. INTRODUCTION