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Title: Leerie

Author: Ruth Sawyer

Illustrator: Clinton Balmer

Release Date: June 24, 2010 [EBook #32959]

Language: English

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Leerie

Ruth Sawyer

[Illustration: Leerie]

LEERIE

BY
RUTH SAWYER

AUTHOR OF
SEVEN MILES TO ARDEN, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY
CLINTON BALMER

"_And O! before you hurry by
With ladder and with light,
O Leerie, see a little child
And nod to him to-night!_"

GROSSET & DUNLAP
NEW YORK PUBLISHERS

Made in the United States of America

LEERIE

Copyright 1920, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America

_To Lamplighters--the world over_

CONTENTS

Chap. Page

Foreword ix

I. The Man Who Feared Sleep 3

II. Old King Cole 40

III. The Changeling 77

IV. For the Honor of the San 116

V. The Last of the Surgical 155

VI. Monsieur Satan 191

VII. The Lad Who Outsang the Stars 232

VIII. Into Her Own 269

Afterword 306

ILLUSTRATIONS

Leerie _Frontispiece_

Holding him high for Peter to admire _Facing p._ 100

"The first look I had told me she had gone quite mad" " 216

"He will require more care, better dressing" " 302

Foreword

I like to write stories. Best of all I like to write stories about people
who help th