1. It deals with the most interesting subject in the world--the getting and spending of money. 2. The story of three families--cousins--who unexpectedly receive $100,000 each from an unknown relative, will strike a responsive chord, in every reader’s heart and set every reader thinking how _he_ would spend the money. 3. It has the same quality that has made Cinderella the most popular of all fairy tales, the joy of watching a girl who has never been fairly treated come out on top in spite of all odds. 4. The scene is laid in a little village and the whole book is a gem of country life and shrewd Yankee philosophy. 5. There is a charming love theme with a happy ending. 6. And, above all, the story teaches an unobtrusive lesson that will appeal to every one of Mrs. Porter’s readers; the lesson that happiness must come from within, and that money cannot buy it. * * * * * Eleanor Hodgman Porter died on May 21, 1920. BOOKS BY ELEANOR H. PORTER _Cross Currents_, 1907. _The Turn of the Tide_, 1908. _The Story of Marco_, 1911. _Miss Billy_, 1911. _Miss Billy’s Decision_, 1912. _Pollyanna_, 1913. _Miss Billy--Married_, 1914. _Pollyanna Grows Up_, 1915. _Just David_, 1916. _The Road to Understanding_, 1917. _Oh, Money! Money!_ 1918. _Dawn_, 1919. _Mary-Marie_, 1919. _Sister Sue_, 1921. _The first two books were published by W. A. Wilde, Boston; the books about Miss Billy and Pollyanna by the Page Company, Boston; the last six books by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston._ CHAPTER X KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN Once Kate Douglas Wiggin, at a fair held in the grounds of Lord Darnley, in County Meath, Ireland, visited a crystal gazer “imported from Dublin for the occasion.” “You have many children,” said the seer. “I have no children,” Mrs. Wiggin replied. “But I see them; they are coming, still coming. O, so many little ones; they are clinging to you; you are surrounded by them,” the woman declared, her eyes on the ball. “They are children of a relative? No?... I cannot understand. I _see them_.” They left her puzzled and frowning. Perhaps she never will know how wonderfully right was her vision. “Little, lame Patsy and the angelic Carol; the mirth-provoking tribe of the Ruggleses; brave Timothy and bewitching Lady Gay; pathetic Marm Lisa and the incorrigible twins, Atlantic and Pacific Simonson; blithe Polly Oliver, with her genius for story-telling; Winsome Rebecca and the faithful Emma Jane,--all these figures crowd about us, and claim their places as everybody’s children.”