Recounts the author's special friendship with an exuberant, precocious, little runaway orphan, whom he came upon when she was four years old and who explored li... » 

Recounts the author's special friendship with an exuberant, precocious, little runaway orphan, whom he came upon when she was four years old and who explored life with unparalleled gusto until her death three and a half years later. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. «