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Title: Tom, Dot and Talking Mouse and Other Bedtime Stories

Author: J. G. Kernahan and C. Kernahan

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TOM, DOT AND TALKING MOUSE

And Other Bedtime Stories

by

J. G. & C. KERNAHAN

Illustrated

[Frontispiece: Tom Lecky]

New York
The Platt & Munk Co. Inc.
Copyright, 1916, by
The Platt & Peck Co.

CONTENTS

The Miller's Mouse

The Old Rocking Horse

The Message of the Lily

Water-Lily's Mission

ILLUSTRATIONS

Tom Lecky . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

Little girls with flowers

Tom dreaming

Mouse at mouse-hole

Mouse at cobweb ladder

Little girls picking flowers

Child with basket of flowers

THE MILLER'S MOUSE

The reason why every one loved Tom Lecky so much was, I believe, that
he was so good-tempered, so cheerful and so unselfish.

Tom was not good-looking, and, indeed, if one were disposed to be
critical in such matters, one could have found fault with almost all
his features except his eyes. These were brown like sealskin, and
nearly always brimming over with merriment. But no one ever thought of
criticising Tom's features, and there really was a common belief among
the villagers that Tom was a handsome fellow. And indeed he was, for
his beautiful unselfish soul gave to his face a beauty which merely
regular features can never do.

Tom Lecky owned a flour-mill, which was situated a little way from
Ellingford, the village where he had been born. He was "well-off," for
the