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| "As the Highlanders had Clung to the Cavalry Stirrups at Balaclava," | [Frontispiece] |
| Sir Toady Lion, | [Titlepage] |
| Hugh John had a Sister, | [1] |
| The Highway lies Deserted, | [10] |
| Mr. Dick Turpin, Late of York and Tyburn, | [12] |
| He Stood on the Roadside, | [18] |
| It Could not Have Been Better Done for a Field-Marshal, | [22] |
| Castle Perilous, | [25] |
| At the End of the Stepping-Stones, | [30] |
| Janet Sheepshanks Awaited this Sorry Procession with a grim Tightening of the Lips, | [32] |
| "I Couldn't Help Getting Beaten," | [35] |
| Success Often Bred Envy, | [42] |
| Sambo, | [46] |
| A Fearful Black Countenance Nodded at Him, | [52] |
| Hugh John Took his way Down the Avenue, | [60] |
| "Wait Till the Next Time," | [63] |
| He was Obliged to Climb a Tree, | [67] |
| Hugh John Tugged Her Hair, | [73] |
| Deposited General-Field-Marshal Smith in the Horse-Pond, | [76] |
| Generals of Division, Equal in Rank, | [79] |
| The Army was Finally Mustered, | [83] |
| The Black Sheds, | [89] |
| The Battle of the Black Sheds, | [93] |
| Cautiously he Returned Through the Hedge, | [95] |
| "Oh, the Bonnie Laddie!" | [98] |
| "Surrender!" cried Nipper Donnan, | [101] |
| The Head Smoutchy, | [104] |
| "Got You at Last!" | [107] |
| "Will ye Say Now that the Castle is Your Father's?" | [112] |
| "But I Won't Cry—Even to Myself," | [114] |
| He Bent the Weight of his Body This way and That, | [117] |
| The Pining Captive, | [122] |
| The Secret Passage, | [128] |
| He Saw a Stretch of Rippled River, | [134] |
| He Floundered Through, | [137] |
| "I Create you General of the Comm'sariat," | [143] |
| "Don't you Speak Against my Father," | [147] |
| Sammy Carter Mutinous, | [149] |
| "One, Two, Three—and a Tiger," | [154] |
| "Look at Him, Madam," said Mrs. Baker, | [157] |
| Toady Lion sat Plump Down, | [162] |
| "Let me Look at Him," She Said, | [165] |
| Love's Young Dream, | [174] |
| "Hit Hard, Brave Soldier," | [177] |
| "Wasn't it Splendid?" | [182] |
| Toady Lion Preferred to Sleep in the Most Curious Positions, | [185] |
| Bantam Chickens, | [192] |
| The Gipsies' Wood, | [199] |
| She Carried a Back Load of Tinware, | [202] |
| The Oldest Implements Invented for the Purpose, | [206] |
| She Went on Her Way, | [211] |
| "Oh, Please Don't, Sir!" | [218] |
| Welcomed by the Enemy, | [220] |
| The Return of the Two Swift Footmen, | [223] |
| Hydraulic Pressure, | [225] |
| The Plan of Campaign, | [237] |
| Trotting Steadily Through the Town, | [244] |
| The Bounding Brothers, | [258] |
| The Living Chain, | [263] |
| Sixpence for Admission, | [269] |
| "Then," said Prissy, "I think it can be Managed," | [274] |
| Toady Lion Stood Looking on, | [280] |
| A Slim Bundle of Limp Woe, | [284] |
| The Good Conduct Prize, | [287] |
| "Smell That," | [292] |
| A Blighted Being, | [294] |
| He Sprang Over the Stile, | [308] |
| "It Looks Like Half of a Sixpence which Somebody has Stepped upon. How Quaint!" | [312] |
| As if Her Heart were Light Within Her, | [314] |
Sir Toady Lion.
CHAPTER I.
PRISSY, HUGH JOHN, AND SIR TOADY LION.
