“Number 4.—Bogy, with bad boys in the bag on his back. Outlined from Christian bending under his burden, in my mother’s old copy of the ‘Pilgrim’s Progress.’ The face from Giant Despair.
“Number 5 and Number 6.—The Man in the Moon, and The Clerk of the Weather Office. From a book of caricatures belonging to Dr James.
“Number 7.—A Dunce. From a steel engraving framed in rosewood that hangs in my Uncle Wilkinson’s parlour.
“Number 8.—Old Father Christmas. From a German book at Lady Littleham’s.”
Chapter Three.
“My sister Patty was six years old. We loved each other dearly. The picture-book was almost as much hers as mine. We sat so long together on one big footstool by the fire, with our arms round each other, and the book resting on our knees, that Kitty called down blessings on my godmother’s head for having sent a volume that kept us both so long out of mischief.
”‘If books was allus as useful as that, they’d do for me,’ said she; and though this speech did not mean much, it was a great deal for Kitty to say; since, not being herself an educated person, she naturally thought that ‘little enough good comes of larning.’