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CHAPTER
I. HOW THE BROWNIES CAME TO HILLSIDE 3
II. SPITE THE SPY 11
III. ADVENTURES OF THE BROWNIE SCOUTS 19
IV. THE BROWNIES VISIT GOVERNOR WILLE 36
V. MADAM BREEZE COMES TO THE RESCUE 42
VI. ATTACK ON THE OLD LODGE 50
VII. HOW THE FORT WAS SAVED 58
VIII. THE SANITARY CORPS 74
IX. NIGHT WATCHES 82
X. THE GOLDEN MOTTOES 95
XI. ON THE TRAIL 101
XII. THE LOST TRAIL 106
XIII. RAFT THE SMUGGLER 110
XIV. A PALACE AND A PRISON 118
XV. A PIXIE INSURRECTION 125
XVI. BROWNIES ON A LARK 139
XVII. HOW THE LARK ENDED 153
XVIII. WOOED BUT NOT WON 170
XIX. A BATTLE ON LAKE KATRINE 179
XX. A NAVAL MONSTER 192
XXI. THE CHARGE OF ENSIGN LAWE 203
XXII. "HAIR-BREADTH 'SCAPES BY FLOOD AND FIELD" 210
XXIII. A GHOST STORY 228
XXIV. THE WISDOM OF THE PIXIES 240
XXV. BLYTHE'S FLUTE 246
XXVI. THE HAUNTED GROUND 259
XXVII. THE DISENCHANTMENT 268
XXVIII. OUT OF THE PIT 276
XXIX. BREAKING CAMP 287
XXX. THE GRAND ALLIANCE WITH SCALY, TWIST AND SLYMOUSIE 298
XXXI. HOME AGAIN 321
XXXII. ENSIGN LAWE'S MISSION 340
XXXIII. HOW THE MISSION ENDED 359

APPENDIX 385

PREFACE.

This preface shall be a personal explanation. The following book was
written during the winter