ILLUSTRATIONS

“Little Louisa’s fingers were nimbler than her mother’s. She was only eight, but she soon learned to tie a plume”[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
“He tied his feet together with the prayer shawl, and looked once upon the rising sun”[9]
“There he stood, indifferent, bored if anything, shiftless”[64]
“If Kate sees it, she steals up behind her, and, putting two affectionate arms around her neck, whispers in her ear, ‘I love oo, Grannie’”[80]
“When we had set up a Christmas tree together, to the wild delight of the children”[95]
“Please, your Honor, let this man go! It is Christmas”[153]