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Title: Dick Lionheart

Author: Mary Rowles Jarvis

Release Date: October 16, 2006 [EBook #19554]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DICK LIONHEART ***

Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: "PAT RUSHED TO DICK'S FEET."]

DICK LIONHEART

BY

MARY ROWLES JARVIS.

WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON

S. W. PARTRIDGE & CO., LTD.

OLD BAILEY.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

I. SOMETHING TO LOVE
II. FIGHTING FIRE
III. A DASH FOR FREEDOM
IV. IN A CARRIER'S WAGGON
V. PAT LOST AND FOUND
VI. A HOME IN IRONBORO'
VII. PADDY'S RESOLVE
VIII. LIONHEART'S BRAVE STAND
IX. STOPPING A BURGLARY
X. SUCCESS AT LAST

ILLUSTRATIONS

"PAT RUSHED TO DICK'S FEET." . . . _Frontispiece_

"WITHOUT A THOUGHT OF DANGER, LIONHEART DASHED TOWARDS THE HORSE'S
HEAD."

"'TAKE THAT FOR INTERFERING!'"

"'I TELL YOU THERE'S NO DANGER AT ALL!'"

DICK LIONHEART.

CHAPTER I.

SOMETHING TO LOVE.

"There, take that, and be off with you! And no dawdling, mind. It's
ten minutes late, and you'll have to step it to be there by one.
That's _your_ dinner, and more than you deserve."

Dick Crosby took the one thick slice she offered, slipped the handle of
the tin of tea on his arm, and with the big basin, tied up in a blue
handkerchief, in his other hand, marched off in the direction of the
tin works, while slatternly Mrs. Fowley went back into her cottage.

"Only bread and dripping again," he muttered, "while they've all got
cooked dinner. How good it smells! She might have given me at least
some taters and gravy. And I'm so thirsty. Perhaps if he is in a good
mood I shall get a drink of tea. I s'pose nobody would know if I
helped myself in Fell Lane, but I can't be Lionheart and do mean
things, teacher said. Only if ever I grow up and have a little chap in
my house what's only a 'cumbrance, he shall have the same dinner as all
the rest!"

Taking frugal bites at the bread and dripping, to make it last as long
as possible, Dick hurried on to the Works,