ILLUSTRATIONS
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FACING PAGE
The thing whirred up into the air, and hung poised on its wings, . . . a dragon fly, . . . the king of all the flies.—p. 74Frontispiece
In rushed a stout old nurse from the next room20
Play by me, bathe in me, mother and child32
A quiet, silent, rich, happy place35
She was the Queen of them all44
From which great trout rushed out on Tom88
He watched the moonlight on the rippling river101
Tom had never seen a lobster before113
The fairies came flying in at the window and brought her such a pretty pair of wings126
A real live water-baby, sitting on the white sand146
Tom found that the isle stood all on pillars, and that its roots were full of caves151
He crept away among the rocks, and got to the cabinet, and behold! it was open172
There he saw the last of the Gairfowl, standing up on the Allalonestone, all alone201
The most beautiful bird of paradise210
"That's Mother Carey"219
Pandora and her box224
"I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined; In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. "To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think, What man has made of man."
Wordsworth.