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Title: Little Miss Joy

Author: Emma Marshall

Release Date: August 19, 2010 [EBook #33465]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "Joy, darling Joy," Patience said, "you have often said
you had wished you had known your mother." _Page_. 167.

_Little Miss Joy._

BY

EMMA MARSHALL,

AUTHOR OF

"LITTLE QUEENIE;" "BLUE BELL;" "ROBERT'S RACE;" "HURLY-BURLY;" ETC.

NEW EDITION.

JOHN F. SHAW (1928) & CO., LTD.

_Publishers,_

3, PILGRIM STREET, LONDON, E.C.4.

1892

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

AT THE ANCHOR PRESS, TIPTREE, ESSEX

CONTENTS.

_CHAPTER I._

WAITING AND WATCHING

_CHAPTER II._

LITTLE MISS JOY

_CHAPTER III._

"AN HONEST BOY"

_CHAPTER IV._

HIS OWN WAY

_CHAPTER V._

A TEA-PARTY IN THE ROW

_CHAPTER VI._

A VISIT TO THE SKINNERS

_CHAPTER VII._

DARK DOINGS

_CHAPTER VIII._

IN PERIL OF THE SEA

_CHAPTER IX._

ON THE WIDE, WIDE SEA

_CHAPTER X._

"ONLY A LITTLE BOX"

_CHAPTER XI._

MR. SKINNER IN COMMAND

_CHAPTER XII._

THE SPIRIT OF PEACE

_CHAPTER XIII._

A TOKEN AT LAST

_CHAPTER XIV._

THE WAITING IS OVER

_CHAPTER XV._

THE HERITAGE OF PEACE

LITTLE MISS JOY.

CHAPTER I.

_WAITING AND WATCHING._

The sea lay calm and still under a cloudless sky. The tide was out,
and there was only a faint murmur like the whisper of gentle voices, as
the little waves told to the sands that they were coming back soon, for
the tide had turned.

It was yet early morning, and the old town of Great Yarmouth was
asleep. The fishing boats had been out all night, and were lying like
so many black birds with folded wings, waiting for the flow of the
water to bring them to the beach. All the blinds were down in the
houses facing the level strand. There was no one moving yet, for the
resonant clock of Saint Nicholas Church had only just struck four.

The children of visitors to Yarmouth, tired with their exertions on the