| 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. 74 | Frontispiece | | In rushed a stout old nurse from the next room | 20 | | Play by me, bathe in me, mother and child | 32 | | A quiet, silent, rich, happy place | 35 | | She was the Queen of them all | 44 | | From which great trout rushed out on Tom | 88 | | He watched the moonlight on the rippling river | 101 | | Tom had never seen a lobster before | 113 | | The fairies came flying in at the window and brought her such a pretty pair of wings | 126 | | A real live water-baby, sitting on the white sand | 146 | | Tom found that the isle stood all on pillars, and that its roots were full of caves | 151 | | He crept away among the rocks, and got to the cabinet, and behold! it was open | 172 | | There he saw the last of the Gairfowl, standing up on the Allalonestone, all alone | 201 | | The most beautiful bird of paradise | 210 | | "That's Mother Carey" | 219 | | Pandora and her box | 224 |
"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.
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