Transcribed from the [1890] W. & R. Chambers edition, by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
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DICKORY DOCK
by
L. T. MEADE
author of
‘scamp and i,’ ‘daddy’s boy,’ ‘a world of girls,’
‘poor miss carolina,’ &c.
W. & R. CHAMBERS, Limited
LONDON AND EDINBURGH
Edinburgh:
Printed by W. & R. Chambers, Limited.
CHAPTER I.
Of course there was a baby in the case—a baby and mongrel dog, and a little boy and girl. They baby was small, and not particularly fair, but it had round limbs and a dimple or two, and a soft, half-pathetic, half-doggy look in its blue eyes, and the usual knack, which most helpless little babies have, of twining itself round the hearts of those who took care of it.