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Title: Hoodie

Author: Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth

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HOODIE

by

MRS. MOLESWORTH

Illustrated by Lewis Baumer

W. & R. Chambers. Limited.
London and Edinburgh.
1897

Edinburgh:
Printed by W. & R. Chambers, Limited.

[Illustration: "Nobody loves poor Hoodie."]

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. AT WAR WITH THE WORLD

CHAPTER II. HOODIE GOES IN SEARCH OF A GRANDMOTHER

CHAPTER III. LITTLE BABY AND ITS MOTHER

CHAPTER IV. MAUDIE'S GODMOTHER

CHAPTER V. STORIES TELLING

CHAPTER VI. "THE CHINTZ CURTAINS"

CHAPTER VII. TWO TRUES

CHAPTER VIII. HOODIE'S FOUNDLING

CHAPTER IX. THE GOLDEN CAGE

CHAPTER X. FLOWN

CHAPTER XI. HOODIE'S DISOBEDIENCE

CHAPTER XII. HOODIE AWAKES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

"Nobody loves poor Hoodie"

"I had my basket on my arm, and the big doggie stood beside me"

"It's just like Martin's cottage"

"Who is zou, please?"

Poor Cross

"Up in the nursley," said Hoodie coolly

"Has zou had a nice sleep?"

"He took off the cap and bowed low"

Hec and Duke ... sticking daisies on to a thorn

"If peoples interrumpt, I wish they'd finish their interrumpting,
and not stop in the middle"

"The darling," said Hoodie ecstatically

Hec refused to be comforted

"Please 'agive me and kiss me"

"Slowly and cautiously, whistling softly all the time"

"Oh dear," she exclaimed. "Are the flowers all