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
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"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.