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Title: Peterkin

Author: Mary Louisa Molesworth

Illustrator: H. R. Millar

Release Date: August 15, 2008 [EBook #26322]

Language: English

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PETERKIN

[Illustration: MAMMA . . . HUGGED HIM AS IF HE'D BEEN LOST FOR A YEAR.

[_Frontispiece._]

PETERKIN

BY

MRS. MOLESWORTH

AUTHOR OF 'CARROTS,' 'CUCKOO CLOCK,' 'TELL ME A STORY'

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. R. MILLAR_

=London=
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1902

_All rights reserved_

TO

"ALEX"

ALEXANDER DOBREE HERRIES

I DEDICATE THIS LITTLE STORY

155 SLOANE STREET, S.W.
_May Day_ 1902

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. WHAT _CAN_ HAVE BECOME OF HIM? 1

II. FOUND 19

III. AN INVITATION 34

IV. VERY MYSTERIOUS 50

V. 'STRATAGEMS' 69

VI. MARGARET 84

VII. THE GREAT PLAN 101

VIII. A TERRIBLE IDEA 118

IX. IN A FOG 135

X. BERYL 149

XI. DEAR MAMMA 165

XII. NO MYSTERY AFTER ALL 182

ILLUSTRATIONS

MAMMA . . . HUGGED HIM AS IF HE'D BEEN LOST FOR A YEAR _Frontispiece_

OUR MISSING PETERKIN _To face page_ 13

NO SOONER DID HE CATCH SIGHT OF US TWO WITH HIS UGLY
ROUND BEADY EYES . . . THAN HE SHUT UP " " 52

PETE HELD OUT HIS BROWN-PAPER PARCEL. 'THIS IS THE
POETRY-BOOK,' HE SAI