THE
THIRTEEN LITTLE BLACK PIGS
And Other Stories
BY
Mrs Molesworth
ILLUSTRATED BY W. J. MORGAN
London
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
NEW. YORK. E & J. B.Young & Co[Pg 4]
LONDON:
ENGRAVED AND PRINTED BY EDMUND EVANS,
RACQUET-CT., FLEET-ST., E.C.
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CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| The Thirteen Little Black Pigs | 7 |
| Right Hand and Left | 29 |
| A Shilling of Halfpence | 38 |
| A Friend in Need | 46 |
| Pansy's Pansy | 54 |
| Pet's Half-crown | 76 |
| A Catapult Story | 83 |
| A Very Long Lane; or, Lost in the Mist | 90 |
THE THIRTEEN
LITTLE
BLACK PIGS
CHAPTER. I
The house stood on rising ground, and the nursery was at the top of thehouse—except of course for the attics above—so there was a good viewfrom the two large windows. This was a great comfort to the childrenduring the weeks they were busy getting better from a long, very long,illness, or illnesses. For they had been so unwise as to get measles,and scarlet fever, and something else—I am not sure if it waswhooping-cough or chicken-pox—all mixed up together! Don't you thinkthey might have been content with one at a time? Their mamma thought so,and the doctor tho