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THERE SHE SAT, AS STILL AS A MOUSE, HOLDING HER PRECIOUS BURDEN [Frontispiece.]
"A YELLOW SIXPENNY, OH, HOW NICE!"[36]
FLOSS TAPPED AT THE DOOR. "CARROTS," SHE SAID, "ARE YOU THERE?"[78]
"NOW, BE QUIET ALL OF YOU, I'M GOING TO BEGIN" [114]
"WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT, MY POOR OLD MAN?" SAID AUNTIE, FONDLY[148]
"IT IS FLOSSIE AND ME, SYBIL—DON'T YOU REMEMBER US?"[184]
"SUDDENLY A BRIGHT THOUGHT STRUCK ME, I SEIZED GIP, MY LITTLE DOG, WHO WAS ASLEEP ON THE HEARTHRUG, AND HELD HIM UP AT THE WINDOW"[212]

"CARROTS:" JUST A LITTLE BOY


CHAPTER I.
FLOSS'S BABY.

"Where did you come from, Baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into here?


"But how did you come to us, you dear?
God thought about you, and so I am here!"