Driven Back to Eden

Excerpt

Months since, with much doubt and diffidence, I began this simple
story.  I had never before written expressly for young people, and I
knew that the honest little critics could not be beguiled with words
which did not tell an interesting story.  How far I have succeeded,
the readers of this volume, and of the “St. Nicholas” magazine,
wherein the tale appeared as a serial, alone can answer.