[Transcriber's Note: Italic text is represented by _underscores_. Small capitals in the original have been converted to all capitals.] _LITTLE SUNBEAMS._ I. BELLE POWERS' LOCKET. By the same Author. I. THE BESSIE BOOKS. _Six vols. in a neat box._ $7.50. The volumes also sold separately; viz.: Bessie at the Seaside; City, Friends; Mountains; School; Travels, at $1.25 each. "Really, it makes the heart younger, warmer, better, to bathe it afresh in such familiar, natural scenes, where benevolence of most practical and blessed utility is seen developing itself, from first to last, in such delightful symmetry and completeness as may, and we hope will, secure many imitators."--_Watchman and Reflector._ II. THE FLOWERETS. A SERIES OF STORIES ON THE COMMANDMENTS. _Six vols. in a neat box._ $3.60. The vols. can also be had separately; viz.: 1. Violet's Idol; 2. Daisy's Work; 3. Rose's Temptation; 4. Lily's Lesson; 5. Hyacinthe and her Brothers; 6. Pinkie and the Rabbits, at 75 cents each. "The child-world we are here introduced to is delightfully real. The children talk and act so naturally that we feel real live children must have sat for their portraits."--_Baltimore Christian Advocate._ BELLE POWERS' LOCKET. "YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD." BY JOANNA H. MATHEWS, AUTHOR OF THE "BESSIE BOOKS" AND "THE FLOWERETS." NEW YORK: ROBERT CARTER AND BROTHERS, 530 BROADWAY. 1882. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by ROBERT CARTER AND BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON & SON, CAMBRIDGE. Dedicated TO BESSIE MUIR FISHER. CONTENTS. I. BELLE AND HER PAPA 9 II. AN EXCITEMENT 25 III. AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE 40 IV. SUNLIGHT 57 V. A DAY WITH MAGGIE AND BESSIE 73 VI. PROVERB-PICTURES 88 VII. MABEL'S NEW WHIM 104 VIII. THE LOCKET 118 IX. BELLE'S MISFORTUNE 133 X. A TERRIBLE LOSS 149 XI. BELLE'S GRIEF 163 XII. CONFESSION AND REPENTANCE 180 XIII. MABEL'S GENEROSITY 196 XIV. FOUND 219 [Illustration] BELLE POWERS' LOCKET. I. _BELLE AND HER PAPA._ Dear little Belle!