The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls

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together in a book.

First he called it "The Penny Whistle," but soon changed the title to "A
Child's Garden of Verses" and dedicated it, with the following poem, to
the only one he said who would really understand the verses, the one who
had done so much to make his childhood days happy:


           TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM

               FROM HER BOY

 "For the long nights you lay awake
  And watched for my unworthy sake;
  For your most comfortable hand
  That led me through the uneven land;
  For all the story-books you read;