Chapter 1 of 37

George MacDonald

1871

CONTENTS

I.   INTRODUCTORY

II.   THE GLIMMER OF TWILIGHT

III.   MY FATHER

IV.   KIRSTY

V.   I BEGIN LIFE

VI.   NO FATHER

VII.   MRS.   MITCHELL IS DEFEATED

VIII.   A NEW SCHOOLMISTRESS

IX.   WE LEARN OTHER THINGS

X.   SIR WORM WYMBLE

XI.   THE KELPIE

XII.   ANOTHER KELPIE

XIII.   WANDERING WILLIE

XIV.   ELSIE DUFF

XV.   A NEW COMPANION

XVI.   I GO DOWN HILL

XVII.   THE TROUBLE GROWS

XVIII.   LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS

XIX.   FORGIVENESS

XX.   I HAVE A FALL AND A DREAM

XXI.   THE BEES’ NEST

XXII.   VAIN INTERCESSION

XXIII.   KNIGHT-ERRANTRY

XXIV.   FAILURE

XXV.   TURKEY PLOTS

XXVI.   OLD JOHN JAMIESON

XXVII.   TURKEY’S TRICK

XXVIII.   I SCHEME TOO

XXIX.   A DOUBLE EXPOSURE

XXX.   TRIBULATION

XXXI.   A WINTER’S RIDE

XXXII.   THE PEAT-STACK

XXXIII.   A SOLITARY CHAPTER

XXXIV.   AN EVENING VISIT

XXXV.   A BREAK IN MY STORY

XXXVI.   I LEARN THAT I AM NOT A MAN

COLOURED PLATES

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THE BILBERRY PICKERS

THE BABY BROTHER

THE DRESSING OF LITTLE DAVIE

MY ESCAPE

TURKEY LIGHTS A FIRE

I GO INTO THE FIELDS

MAKING THE SNOWBALL

READING TO ELSIE AND TURKEY

A SUDDEN STOP

HELPING ELSIE

A READING LESSON

I RETURN HOME

Coloured Illustrations by A.V. Wheelhouse:
Black-and-White Illustrations by Arthur Hughes.