Aunt Jo's Scrapbag

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2>Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag</h2> <h4>BY</h4> <h3>LOUISA M. ALCOTT,</h3> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2><SPAN name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></SPAN>PREFACE.</h2> <p>As grandmothers rummage their piece-bags and bundles in search of gay odds and ends to make gifts with which to fill the little stockings that hang all in a row on Christmas Eve, so I have gathered together some stories, old and new, to amuse the large family that has so rapidly and beautifully grown up about me.</p> <p>I hope that when they promenade in night-caps and gowns to rifle the plump stockings, the little 'dears' will utter an 'Oh!' of pleasure, and give a prance of satisfaction, as they pull out this small gift from Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag.</p> <p><span style="margin-left: 1em;"><span class="smcap">Christmas Holidays</span>,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">1871-72.</span><br/></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />