A Rough Shaking

by George MacDonald

A ROUGH SHAKING

By George MacDonald

CONTENTS.

Chap.
[I.]	How I came to know Clare Skymer.
[II.]	With his Parents.
[III.]	Without his Parents.
[IV.]	The New Family.
[V.]	His New Home.
[VI.]	What did draw out his first Smile.
[VII.]	Clare and his Brothers.
[VIII.]	Clare and his Human Brothers.
[IX.]	Clare the Defender.
[X.]	The Black Aunt.
[XI.]	Clare on the Farm.
[XII.]	Clare becomes a Guardian of the Poor.
[XIII.]	Clare the Vagabond.
[XIV.]	Their first Helper.
[XV.]	Their first Host.
[XVI.]	On the Tramp.
[XVII.]	The Baker’s Cart.
[XVIII.]	Beating the Town.
[XIX.]	The Blacksmith and his Forge.
[XX.]	Tommy reconnoitres.
[XXI.]	Tommy is Found and Found out.
[XXII.]	The Smith in a Rage.
[XXIII.]	Treasure Trove.
[XXIV.]	Justifiable Burglary.
[XXV.]	A New Quest.
[XXVI.]	A New Entrance.
[XXVII.]	The Baby has her Breakfast.
[XXVIII.]	Treachery.
[XXIX.]	The Baker.
[XXX.]	The Draper.
[XXXI.]	An Addition to the Family.
[XXXII.]	Shop and Baby.
[XXXIII.]	A Bad Penny.
[XXXIV.]	How Things went for a Time.
[XXXV.]	Clare disregards the Interests of his Employers.
[XXXVI.]	The Policeman.
[XXXVII.]	The Magistrate.
[XXXVIII.]	The Workhouse.
[XXXIX.]	Away.
[XL.]	Maly.
[XLI.]	The Caravans.
[XLII.]	Nimrod.
[XLIII.]	Across Country.
[XLIV.]	A Third Mother.
[XLV.]	The Menagerie.
[XLVI.]	The Angel of the Wild Beasts.
[XLVII.]	Glum Gunn.
[XLVIII.]	The Puma.
[XLIX.]	Glum Gunn’s Revenge.
[L.]	Clare seeks Help.
[LI.]	Clare a true Master.
[LII.]	Miss Tempest.
[LIII.]	The Gardener.
[LIV.]	The Kitchen.
[LV.]	The Wheel rests for a Time.
[LVI.]	Strategy.
[LVII.]	Ann Shotover.
[LVIII.]	Child-talk.
[LIX.]	Lovers’ Walks.
[LX.]	The Shoe-black.
[LXI.]	A Walk with Consequences.
[LXII.]	The Cage of the Puma.
[LXIII.]	The Dome of the Angels.
[LXIV.]	The Panther.
[LXV.]	At Home.
[LXVI.]	The End of Clare Skymer’s Boyhood.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

[Mrs. Porson finds Clare by the side of his dead Mother]

[Clare is heard talking to Maly]

[Clare makes Friends during Mr. Porson’s Absence]

[The Blacksmith gives Clare and Tommy a Rough Greeting]

[Clare, Tommy, and the Baby in Custody]

[Clare and Abdiel at the locked Pump]

[Clare proceeds to untie the Ropes from the Ring in the Bull’s Nose]

[Clare finds the Advantage of a Powerful Friend]

[The Gardener’s Discomfiture]

[Clare asks Miss Shotover to let him carry Ann home]

[Clare is found giving the Shoe-black a Lesson]

[Clare asleep in the Puma’s Cage]

Dedicated to my great-nephew,
Norman MacKay Binney,
aged seven,
because his Godfather and Godmother love him dearly.

Hampstead, August 26, 1890.

A ROUGH SHAKING.

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