LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"What is the matter, little girls?" said the lady.[Frontispiece]
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He had to drum with a spoon, first in one fat hand and then in the other[2]
They were settled on the hearth-rug—Baby on Peggy's lap[17]
"See Hal," she said, "over there, far, far away, neely in the sky, does you see that bluey hill?"[27]
She was rather a terrible-looking old woman; she always wore a short bed-gown . . . and she was generally to be seen with a pipe in her mouth[35]
"Tell me what the little white house is reely like"[52]
Peggy stood still, her eyes fixed on the baby shoes[68]
"Here's the other shoe, I've just founded it"[92]
Suddenly a window above opened, and Mother Whelan's befrilled face was thrust out[109]
An umbrella rolling itself about on the pavement[127]
"To be sure," she said, in her most gracious tone. "'Tis the beautiful pipes I have"[138]
The boys, boy-like, thought little but of who could blow the biggest bubbles[149]
Hushed Light Smiley to sleep, her arm clasped round Peggy[177]