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.