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Title: Mother Carey's Chickens

Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin

Release Date: December 29, 2003 [eBook #10540]

Language: English

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MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS

By KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

CONTENTS

I. MOTHER CAREY HERSELF
II. THE CHICKENS
III. THE COMMON DENOMINATOR
IV. THE BROKEN CIRCLE
V. HOW ABOUT JULIA?
VI. NANCY'S IDEA
VII. "OLD BEASTS INTO NEW"
VIII. THE KNIGHT OF BEULAH CASTLE
IX. GILBERT'S EMBASSY
X. THE CAREYS' FLITTING
XI. THE SERVICE ON THE THRESHOLD
XII. COUSIN ANN
XIII. THE PINK OF PERFECTION
XIV. WAYS AND MEANS
XV. BELONGING TO BEULAH
XVI. THE POST-BAG
XVII. JACK OF ALL TRADES
XVIII. THE HOUSE OF LORDS
XIX. OLD AND NEW
XX. THE PAINTED CHAMBER
XXI. A FAMILY RHOMBOID
XXII. CRADLE GIFTS
XXIII. NEARING SHINY WALL
XXIV. A LETTER FROM GERMANY
XXV. "FOLLOWING THE GLEAM"
XXVI. A ZOOLOGICAL FATHER
XXVII. THE CAREY HOUSEWARMING
XXVIII. "TIBI SPLENDET FOCUS"
XXIX. "TH' ACTION FINE"
XXX. THE INGLENOOK
XXXI. GROOVES OF CHANGE
XXXII. DOORS OF DARING
XXXIII. MOTHER HAMILTON'S BIRTHDAY.
XXXIV. NANCY COMES OUT
XXXV. THE CRIMSON RAMBLER

I

MOTHER CAREY HERSELF

"By and by there came along a flock of petrels, who are Mother Carey's
own chickens.... They flitted along like a flock of swallows, hopping
and skipping from wave to wave, lifting their little feet behind them so
daintily that Tom fell in love with them at once."

Nancy stopped reading and laid down the copy of "Water Babies" on the
sitting-room table. "No more just now, Peter-bird," she said; "I hear
mother coming."

It was a cold, dreary day in late October, with an east wind and a chill
of early winter in the air. The cab stood in front of Captain Carey's
house, with a trunk beside the driver and a general air of expectancy on
th