Contents

[CHAPTER I]
[CHAPTER II]
[CHAPTER III]
[CHAPTER IV]
[CHAPTER V]
[CHAPTER VI]
[CHAPTER VII]
[CHAPTER VIII and LAST]
[MORAL]

ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE
The thing whirred up into the air, and hung poised on its wings, . . . a dragon fly, . . . the king of all the flies.—[p. 74][Frontispiece]
In rushed a stout old nurse from the next room[20]
Play by me, bathe in me, mother and child[32]
A quiet, silent, rich, happy place[35]
She was the Queen of them all[44]
From which great trout rushed out on Tom[88]
He watched the moonlight on the rippling river[101]
Tom had never seen a lobster before[113]
The fairies came flying in at the window and brought her such a pretty pair of wings[126]
A real live water-baby, sitting on the white sand[146]
Tom found that the isle stood all on pillars, and that its roots were full of caves[151]
He crept away among the rocks, and got to the cabinet, and behold! it was open[172]
There he saw the last of the Gairfowl, standing up on the Allalonestone, all alone[201]
The most beautiful bird of paradise[210]
"That's Mother Carey"[219]
Pandora and her box[224]

"I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined;
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
"To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think,
What man has made of man."

Wordsworth.