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| The Two Ways | [Frontispiece]. |
| Restless Kitty | [1] |
| Johnnie and His Art Treasures | [5] |
| The Snow-Man | [16] |
| Down the Wide Staircase | [16] |
| Kitty’s Tears | [22] |
| Sliding Down the Balusters | [28] |
| The Snow-Man Visits Kitty | [35] |
| Following the Snow-Man | [39] |
| The Drollest Creature | [40] |
| Kitty and the Elf | [45] |
| Broken Toy Land | [49] |
| A Dismal Chorus | [51] |
| “A black creature glared at her” | [54] |
| A Disagreeable Acquaintance | [56] |
| Little Cruel-Heart | [61] |
| A Good Fight | [64] |
| The Song of the Sillies | [69] |
| “I am not vain” | [73] |
| A Jam-Tart Too Many | [78] |
| Kitty and Daddy Coax | [87] |
| A Lively Wig | [89] |
| Sweetening the Fury | [95] |
| All Jam and No Powder | [98] |
| Little Spitfire | [100] |
| The Fight for the Flute | [108] |
| The Shadow of the Rod | [111] |
| “Peering out of the mist” | [114] |
| The White-Robed Stranger | [119] |
| Entangled in the Web | [123] |
| The Tramp of Weary Feet | [126] |
| Ice-Children | [130] |
| The Right One to Kick | [133] |
| A Hard Lesson | [139] |
| “Oh, to be hungry again!” | [141] |
| Faces! Faces!—a World of Faces! | [145] |
| The Cry for the Kiss | [152] |
| Kitty’s Guardian Child | [155] |
| Kitty’s Naughty-Self Goblin | [161] |
| The Hanging Dwarf | [166] |
| Goblin Sloth | [169] |
| “Real yawning” | [172] |
| “At one bound she sprang across” | [176] |
| The Frog-Like One | [178] |
| Step, Wriggle, and Bow | [181] |
| The Little Courtiers | [185] |
| Kitty’s Musings | [188] |
| Apple-Pie Corner | [193] |
| The Boy with the Suetty Voice | [199] |
| Struggling Onward | [204] |
| I and Myself | [217] |
| Mr. Take-care-of-himself | [220] |
| “A cripple like Johnnie” | [226] |
| A Merry Game | [232] |
| The Goblin Crew | [236] |
| Out of the Mist | [241] |
| At the Locked Gate | [244] |
| The Mist of Punishment Land | [248] |
| Home Again | [251] |
| “It is a secret” | [254] |
CHAPTER I
CHRISTMAS EVE.
Toss! toss! from one side to the other; still Kitty could not sleep.
The big round moon looked in at the window, for the curtain had not been drawn, and it made a picture of the window on the wall opposite, and showed the pattern on the paper; nosegays of roses, tied with blue ribbon; roses and knots of blue ribbon; like no roses Kitty had ever seen, and no blue ribbon she had ever bought.
Toss! toss! toss! she shut her eyes not to see the picture of the window on the wall or the roses and the blue ribbon, yet she could not go to sleep. It was always toss! toss! from one side to the other.
It was Christmas Eve, and outside the world was white with snow.
“It had been a dreadful day,” Kitty said to herself. “The last nine days had been dreadful days, and this had been the dreadfulest of all.”