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Title: The Thirteen Little Black Pigs
and Other Stories

Author: Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth

Illustrator: W. J. Morgan

Release Date: November 26, 2009 [EBook #30547]

Language: English

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THE THIRTEEN LITTLE BLACK PIGS

_AND OTHER STORIES_.

[Illustration: The THIRTEEN LITTLE BLACK PIGS

AND OTHER STORIES

BY

MRS MOLESWORTH

ILLUSTRATED BY W. J. MORGAN

LONDON

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

NEW. YORK. E & J. B. Young & Co]

LONDON:

ENGRAVED AND PRINTED BY EDMUND EVANS,

RACQUET-CT., FLEET-ST., E.C.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

THE THIRTEEN LITTLE BLACK PIGS 7

RIGHT HAND AND LEFT 29

A SHILLING OF HALFPENCE 38

A FRIEND IN NEED 46

PANSY'S PANSY 54

PET'S HALF-CROWN 76

A CATAPULT STORY 83

A VERY LONG LANE; OR, LOST IN THE MIST 90

[Illustration]

THE THIRTEEN
LITTLE
BLACK PIGS

CHAPTER. I

The house stood on rising ground, and the nursery was at the top of the
house--except of course for the attics above--so there was a good view
from the two large windows. This was a great comfort to the children
during the weeks they were busy getting better from a long, very long,
illness, or illnesses. For they had been so unwise as to get measles,
and scarlet fever, and something else--I am not sure if it was
whooping-cough or chicken-pox--all mixed up together! Don't you think
they might have been content with one