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Title: Tom and Maggie Tulliver

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: October 17, 2009 [EBook #30273]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: Tom came running to prevent Maggie from snatching her
line away.]

TOM AND MAGGIE TULLIVER

TOLD FROM GEORGE ELIOT'S

"THE MILL ON THE FLOSS"

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, LTD.

LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK

1909

CONTENTS.

I. TOM MUST GO TO SCHOOL
II. THE CHOICE OF A SCHOOL
III. TOM COMES HOME
IV. ALL ABOUT A JAM PUFF
V. THE FAMILY PARTY
VI. THE MAGIC MUSIC
VII. MAGGIE IS VERY NAUGHTY
VIII. MAGGIE AND THE GIPSIES
IX. THE GIPSY QUEEN ABDICATES
X. TOM AT SCHOOL
XI. THE NEW SCHOOLFELLOW
XII. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON
XIII. PHILIP AND MAGGIE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

TOM CAME RUNNING TO PREVENT MAGGIE FROM
SNATCHING HER LINE AWAY . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

"MY PRETTY LADY, ARE YOU COME TO STAY WITH US?"

"HERE, MAGGIE, COME AND HEAR IF I CAN SAY THIS"

"O TOM, PLEASE DON'T," CRIED MAGGIE

MAGGIE AND TOM TULLIVER.

Chapter I.

TOM MUST GO TO SCHOOL.

"What I want, you know," said Mr. Tulliver of Dorlcote Mill--"what I
want is to give Tom a good eddication. That was what I was thinking of
when I gave notice for him to leave th' academy at Lady Day. I meant
to put him to a downright good school at Midsummer.

"The two years at th' academy 'ud ha' done well enough," the miller
went on, "if I'd meant to make a miller and farmer of him like myself.
But I should like Tom to be a bit of a scholard, so as he might be up
to the tricks o' these fellows as talk fine and write with a flourish.
It 'ud be a help to me wi' these lawsuits and things."

Mr. Tulliver was speaking to his wife, a blond, comely woman in a
fan-shaped cap.

"Well, Mr. Tulliver," said she, "you know best. But hadn't I better
kill a couple o' fowl, and have th' aunts and uncles to dinner next