Produced by Janet Kegg and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net THE OTHER GIRLS By MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1893 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. * * * * * By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. WRITINGS. New Edition, from new plates. The set, 17 vols. 16mo, $21.25. FAITH GARTNEY'S GIRLHOOD. 16mo, $1.25. HITHERTO: A Story of Yesterdays. 16mo, $1.25. PATIENCE STRONG'S OUTINGS. 16mo, $1.25. THE GAYWORTHYS. 16mo, $1.25. A SUMMER IN LESLIE GOLDTHWAITE'S LIFE. 16mo, $1.25. WE GIRLS: A Home Story. Illustrated. 16mo, $1.25. REAL FOLKS. 16mo, $1.25. THE OTHER GIRLS. 16mo, $1.25. SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS. 2 vols. 16mo, $2.50. ODD, OR EVEN? 16mo, $1.25. BONNYBOROUGH. 16mo, $1.25. BOYS AT CHEQUASSET. Illustrated. 16mo, $1.25. MOTHER GOOSE FOR GROWN FOLKS. Enlarged Edition. Illustrated by HOPPIN. 16mo, $1.25. HOMESPUN YARNS. Short Stories. 16mo, $1.25. ASCUTNEY STREET. A Neighborhood Story. 16mo, $1.25. A GOLDEN GOSSIP. Neighborhood Story Number Two. 16mo, $1.25. DAFFODILS. Poems. Illustrated. 16mo, $1.25. PANSIES. Poems. New Edition. 16mo, $1.25. HOLY-TIDES. Seven Songs for the Church's Seasons. 16mo, illuminated paper, 75 cents. BIRD-TALK. New Poems. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00. JUST HOW: A Key to the Cook-Books. 16mo, $1.00. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. BOSTON AND NEW YORK. * * * * * PREFACE. "Wait until you are helped, my dear! Don't touch the pie until it is cut!" The old Mother, Life, keeps saying that to us all. As individuals, it is well for us to remember it; that we may not have things until we are helped; at any rate, until the full and proper time comes, for courageously and with right assurance helping ourselves. Yet it is good for _people_, as people, to get a morsel--a flavor--in advance. It is well that they should be impatient for the King's supper, to which we shall all sit down, if we will, one day. So I have not waited for everything to happen and become a usage, that I have told you of in this little story. I confess that there are good things in it which have not yet, literally, come to pass. I have picked something out of the pie beforehand.