four little girls
raised a hideous cry, and burying their heads in their mother's lap
simultaneously, screamed until the eight flaxen tails vibrated again.

[Illustration]

THE RUNAWAY COUPLE

THE RUNAWAY COUPLE

_"Christmas Stories"
The Holly-Tree, Second Branch_

So Boots goes up-stairs to the Angel, and there he finds Master Harry on
a e-normous sofa,--immense at any time, but looking like the Great Bed
of Ware, compared with him, a drying the eyes of Miss Norah with his
pocket-hankecher. Their little legs was entirely off the ground, of
course, and it really is not possible for Boots to express to me how
small them children looked.

[Illustration]

LITTLE EM'LY

LITTLE EM'LY

_"David Copperfield," Chapter III_

The light, bold, fluttering little figure turned and came back safe to
me, and I soon laughed at my fears, and at the cry I had uttered;
fruitlessly in any case, for there was no one near.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

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