XVIII. THE BREAKING OF THE STORM 212

XIX. ONE NIGHT 220

XX. IN CAMPAIGN 233

XXI. THE QUEER NAME 244

XXII. THE BATTLE OF GREAT BRIDGE 254

XXIII. MAID SALLY AND HER FAIRY PRINCE 265

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IT IN TRUTH MUCH CHEERED HER TO SEE MAMMY
LEEZER COME TRUNDLING ALONG _Frontispiece_

'GOOD EVENING, LITTLE MAID,' SHE SAID, PLEASANTLY 96

SALLY STOOD AGAINST A TREE AND SANG WITHOUT
A THOUGHT OR CARE 120

WHEN VOICES AND HOOF-BEATS SMOTE UPON HER EAR 134

MORE THAN ONE BRITISH SOLDIER STATIONED IN
THE TOWN HAD LOOKED SHARPLY INTO THE
DEPTHS OF HER SUN-BONNET 171

FOR SALLY NEITHER DREW REIN NOR DID HOTSPUR
ONCE BREAK HIS LONG, SPLENDID STRIDE 225

THE BATTLE AT GREAT BRIDGE 262

MAID SALLY BECAME A FREQUENT GUEST AT INGLESIDE 277

MAID SALLY

CHAPTER I.

HEARD AT INGLESIDE

"And the Fairy sang to the poor child, and stroked its tangled hair, and
smoothed its puckered cheeks.

"And it sang and sang until the little face that had been full of
trouble grew bright with the cheer of heartsease.

"And still the Fairy sang and sang until, from very peacefulness, the
child's eyes began to droop and softly close, just as the flowers droop
and hang their pretty heads at twilight-song.

"And the Fairy sang on and on until the little creature in its arms had
floated into Dreamland, and then had passed far beyond Dreamland into
Fairy Town. And the child skipped through green fields and grassy
meadows, went dancing through beds of flowers, and flying in and out of
bushes full of sweetest scents. It drank the honey-drops the bees love,
and sipped syrup of flowers, the humming-bird's food. And it heard
ripples of music, such as are heard only in Fairy Town, and saw lovely
little objects with wings of gauze, and eyes like sparks of light.

"And the Fairy sang and sang, and the child dreamed and dreamed, until
every shadow of its life had faded away. And still it dreamed and
dreamed--"

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