LITTLE KING DAVIE

OR

"Kings and priests unto God"

BY

NELLIE HELLIS

Author of "Little Gladness," "Roving Robin," "Bennie, the Bread-Winner," "Martin Drayton's Sin," "Rob and Ralph," etc.

ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH THOUSAND

INTER FOLIA FRUCTUS.

LONDON JARROLD & SONS, 10 & 11, WARWICK LANE, E.C.

[All Rights Reserved]

1897

TO THE

REV. WILLIAM JOHN KNOX-LITTLE.

CANON OF WORCESTER, ETC., TO WHOSE TEACHING SHE OWES MUCH, THE AUTHOR IS GLAD TO DEDICATE THIS LITTLE STORY, WHICH IS FOUNDED ON ONE OF HIS SERMONS. AND ON A CERTAIN INCIDENT IN HIS OWN LIFE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER.

I. DAVIE'S HISTORY

II. A DAY'S WORK AND ITS WAGES

III. DAVIE HEARS STRANGE NEWS

IV. IN THE HOSPITAL

V. DAVIE GAINS A NEW NAME

VI. A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT

VII. THE LONGING REALIZED

VIII. HOME, SWEET HOME

IX. GOOD-BYE TO LONDON

LITTLE KING DAVIE

Or, "Kings and Priests unto God."