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The Family at Misrule.

BY
ETHEL TURNER.

[Illustration]

“Poppet had a little dead chicken in her hand.”
(Page 20)

LONDON:
WARD, LOCK & BOWDEN, LIMITED,
WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.
NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE.

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THE FAMILY AT MISRULE.

BY
ETHEL TURNER,
AUTHOR OF
“SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS,” “THE STORY OF A BABY,” ETC.

“Ah that spring should vanish with the Rose!

That youth’s sweet-scented manuscript should close!”

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

“To youth the greatest reverence is due.”

Juvenal.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. J. JOHNSON.

LONDON:
WARD, LOCK, & BOWDEN, LIMITED.
WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.
NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE.
1895.

TO
CHARLES COPE,
MY STEPFATHER AND FRIEND.

E. S. T.,
Lindfield, Sydney.

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CONTENTS.

CHAP.		PAGE
I.	PICKING UP THREADS	9
II.	SCHOOL TROUBLES	20
III.	A PASSAGE AT ARMS	32
IV.	A SUMMER’S DAY	42
V.	BETWEEN A DREAM AND A DREAM	56
VI.	TO-MORROW	69
VII.	A LITTLE MAID-ERRANT	78
VIII.	ONE PARTICULAR EVENING	88
IX.	THAT MISCHIEVOUS CUPID	98
X.	NEEDLES AND PINS	113
XI.	A DAY IN SYDNEY	125
XII.	THREE COURSES ONE SHILLING	137
XIII.	PARNASSUS AND PUDDINGS	151
[8] XIV.	MUSHROOMS	161
XV.	THE GOVERNMENT OF MEG	172
XVI.	MORE MUTINY	184
XVII.	A DINNER PARTY	194
XVIII.	“HOW GOOD YOU OUGHT TO BE!”	208
XIX.	HEADACHE AND HEARTACHE	217
XX.	MY LITTLE ONE DAUGHTER	228
XXI.	THE SEVENTH DAY	238
XXII.	AMARANTH OR ASPHODEL	245
XXIII.	LITTLE FAITHFUL MEG	254
XXIV.	“IN THE MIDNIGHT, IN THE SILENCE OF THE SLEEP TIME”	266
XXV.	HERE ENDETH	274

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