LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| "'Tu-whoo!' said the Snowy Owl" ([See page 281]) | [Frontispiece] |
| "'Here is yours,' said Bell; 'next to ours'" | [28] |
| "''Tis not a plate ship!'" | [81] |
| "'Come on! come in!'" | [107] |
| "Mr. Claud Belleville was a tall, pallid youth" | [138] |
| Mrs. Merryweather's Vigil | [175] |
| "'Simply fierce, your reverence!' said I" | [217] |
| "He was stirring the porridge industriously, while she mixed the johnny-cake" | [233] |
THE MERRYWEATHERS
CHAPTER I.
THE ARRIVAL
"Oh, Peggy, I am afraid!"
"Why, Margaret!"