LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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"Enjoying her father's parting fondling"(page 18)[Frontispiece]
"The great delight of all the children"[5]
"'For my thirteen best customers'"[11]
"She applied herself to the shirts with vigor"[24]
"Imprinted on them a few reminders of maternal solicitude"[29]
"Grandad was speechless"[32]
"'An' are ye insinooatin', Misther Rafferty?'"[33]
"As Katrina passed through the store"[43]
"'I may go, may I not?'"[45]
"'It's samples I have . . .' said Terence, proudly displaying the contents of his bundle"[60]
"To admire the festive preparations"[64]
"And as she sat there Memory came and stood by her"[65]
"Katrina . . . went to work"[75]
"He picked up the card and read"[78]
"Was on his way to the City Hospital"[81]
"'A Merry Christmas from Katrina Baumgärtner!'"[87]
"She placed both puddings in her apron"[89]
"'Gott in Himmel! Donner und Blitzen!'"[101]
"'Twelve cakes to the Widow M'Carty!'"[104]
"Bridget next attacked her father"[110]
"'It's more roometiz for me, so it is'"[114]
"'Ven I smokes dat pipe den I forget dose plum puddings'"[123]
"His glance fell upon something white that lay on the counter"[127]
"'A stick of candy apiece'"[137]
"Katy . . . returned bearing aloft a package"[154]
"Mrs. M'Carty let them hunt"[156]
"The house . . . held more hiding-places than one would have supposed"[157]
"'It's my Michael,—my heart of the world'"[159]

The Misfit Christmas Puddings

First Episode

HERR BAUMGÄRTNER'S ESTABLISHMENT EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS