Project Gutenberg 2009-05-30 Public domain in the USA. 282 Griswold, F. Burge (Frances Burge) 1826 1900 Phelps, S. B., Mrs. Smith, F. I. Burge (Frances Irene Burge) Phelps, Mrs. S. B. Griswold, Frances Irene Burge Smith Smith, Mrs. F. B. Smith, F. B. (Frances Burge) The Elm Tree Tales Jennie Grig: the street-sweeper -- Nannie Bates: the huckster's daughter -- Archibald Mackie: the little cripple. Produced by David Edwards, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) "The Elm Tree Tales" by F. Burge Griswold is a collection of fictional stories written in the mid-19th century. The book revolves around the lives of various characters grappling with the themes of poverty, kindness, and the vicissitudes of life. Prominent among the characters is young Jennie Grig, a street-sweeper whose tough circumstances resonate profoundly throughout the narrative. At the start of the tales, the plight of Jennie is poignantly introduced as she suffers an accident while working on the streets, leading to her being assisted by kind strangers. The narrative unfolds to reveal Jennie's worries for her sick family, painting an evocative picture of her struggles. As she is taken in by Mrs. Dunmore, the story hints at potential themes of kindness, social class differences, and the resilience of the human spirit. The interactions between Jennie and her new benefactors imply a journey of transformation that explores deeper connections, care, and hope amidst dire circumstances, setting the stage for the unfolding stories to delve into the nature of compassion and its effects on individual lives. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 68.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Conduct of life -- Fiction Children -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Short Stories 471721 2025-06-12T05:36:19.120634 text/html 476747 2021-01-05T03:52:33 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 176059 2021-01-05T03:52:33 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 247945 2025-06-12T05:36:27.216604 application/epub+zip 253331 2025-06-12T05:36:21.315630 application/epub+zip 253331 2025-06-12T05:36:19.967643 application/epub+zip 474021 2025-06-12T05:36:32.587607 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 401652 2025-06-12T05:36:26.273598 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 378278 2022-09-13T12:38:05.450787 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 439787 2025-06-12T05:36:18.332661 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 439578 2021-01-05T03:52:33 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 167862 2021-01-05T03:52:33 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 439569 2021-01-05T03:52:33 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 167823 2021-01-05T03:52:33 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21045 2025-06-12T05:36:32.744576 application/rdf+xml 11478 2025-06-12T05:36:20.535620 image/jpeg 3140 2025-06-12T05:36:20.249631 image/jpeg 236075 2025-06-12T05:36:19.161658 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog