LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| In another moment Toby's nose was in the bowl too, to Toby's supreme content | [Front.] |
From behind some stubble a few yards off rose the figure of the young boy whom the children had seen walking behind the Gipsies—whistling while he cut at a branch he held in his hand | Page [74] |
"Here's some supper for you. Wake up, and try and eat a bit. It'll do you good" | [89] |
"They want out a bit," she said. "They're tired like with being mewed up in there all day and never a breath of air—no wonder" | [132] |
"Upon my word they are something quite out of the common," he said; "I wouldn't have missed them for a good deal. What a king and queen of the pigmies, or 'babes in the wood,' they'd make" | [173] |
"I do fink when us is quite big and can do as us likes, us must have a boat like this, and always go sailing along" | [195] |
"Oh Toby, Toby!—bruvver—sister—it is, it is our own Toby. He has come to take us home. Oh dear, dear Toby" | [220] |
| "She is telling them stories of the wood, And the Wolf and Little Red Riding-Hood." |
| The Golden Legend. |
CHAPTER I.
HOW THEY CAME TO BE "US."
| "Blue were their eyes as the fairy-flax, Their cheeks like the dawn of day." |
| Longfellow. |