LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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| "It in truth much cheered her to see Mammy Leezer come trundling along" | [Frontispiece] |
| "'Good evening, little maid,' she said, pleasantly" | [96] |
| "Sally stood against a tree and sang without a thought or care" | [122] |
| "When voices and hoof-beats smote upon her ear" | [140] |
| "More than one British soldier stationed in the town had looked sharply into the depths of her sun-bonnet" | [179] |
| "For Sally neither drew rein nor did Hotspur once break his long, splendid stride" | [235] |
| "The Battle at Great Bridge" | [272] |
| "Maid Sally became a frequent guest at Ingleside" | [291] |
MAID SALLY
CHAPTER I.
HEARD AT INGLESIDE
"And the Fairy sang to the poor child, and stroked its tangled hair, and smoothed its puckered cheeks.
"And it sang and sang until the little face that had been full of trouble grew bright with the cheer of heartsease.
"And still the Fairy sang and sang until, from very peacefulness, the child's eyes began to droop and softly close, just as the flowers droop and hang their pretty heads at twilight-song.
"And the Fairy sang on and on until the little creature in its arms had floated into Dreamland, and then had passed far beyond Dreamland into Fairy Town. And the child skipped through green fields and grassy meadows, went dancing through beds of flowers, and flying in and out of bushes full of sweetest scents. It drank the honey-drops the bees love, and sipped syrup of flowers, the humming-bird's food. And it heard ripples of music, such as are heard only in Fairy Town, and saw lovely little objects with wings of gauze, and eyes like sparks of light.