title: Grandmother Elsie (The Original Elsie Dinsmore Collection)
author:  Martha Finley 
description: There has been almost no character in American juvenile fiction which has attained more widespread interest and affection than &#34;Elsie.&#34; --<i>Ladies Home Journal, April 1893</i>
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  # Grandmother Elsie
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Martha Finley
  
  
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  CHAPTER I.
  
  
  CHAPTER II.
  
  
  CHAPTER III.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV.
  
  
  CHAPTER V.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX.
  
  
  CHAPTER X.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV.
  
  
  CHAPTER XV.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX.
  
  
  CHAPTER XX.
  
  
  CHAPTER XXI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XXII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIV.
  
  
  
  
  
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  GRANDMOTHER ELSIE
  
  
  A SEQUEL TO “ELSIE'S WIDOWHOOD”
  
  
  By MARTHA FINLEY
  
  
  COMPLETE AUTHORIZED EDITION
  
  
  “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill
  
  
  together.”—Shakespeare
  
  
  Published by arrangement with Dodd, Mead and Company
  
  
  A.L. BURT COMPANY
  
  
  _PUBLISHERS_
  
  
  New York Chicago
  
  
  1882, BY DODD, MEAD &COMPANY
  
  
  1910, BY CHARLES B. FINLEY
  
  
  
  
  
  GRANDMOTHER EL