. Little Miss Peggy; only a nursery story . sowhite and tiny, lying there almost in her arms,that it made her heart ache to see her. So sheshut her own eyes and tried to think what todo. And the thinking grew gradually confusedand mixed up with all sorts of other fancied she heard her mother calling herand she tried to answer, but somehow the wordswould not come. And at last, though she was really so anxiousand distressed, the quiet and the mild air, andthe idleness perhaps, to which none of theSimpkins family were much accustomed, alljoined together and by degrees hushed poorL
. Little Miss Peggy; only a nursery story . sowhite and tiny, lying there almost in her arms,that it made her heart ache to see her. So sheshut her own eyes and tried to think what todo. And the thinking grew gradually confusedand mixed up with all sorts of other fancied she heard her mother calling herand she tried to answer, but somehow the wordswould not come. And at last, though she was really so anxiousand distressed, the quiet and the mild air, andthe idleness perhaps, to which none of theSimpkins family were much accustomed, alljoined together and by degrees hushed poorLight Smiley to sleep, her arms clasped roundPeggy as if to protect her from any possibledanger. / ind af last. thoucSn hi was really so anxiousand cJ«str£sSic)f tKi cjuiif Ancl tfu mi/d airt^ndtkf idkmss piTnaps, to whicf) nom of tn* Simp:kin5 -family \A^ir£ muck jvccustormd, all joimdtogsHur and by dijrtts. Kushid poor Lid/it<^milry *b 5liip, n<r arms claspid | / Tound ftg£y ^ if fo prottcf \(,L/ ktr {rorr\ *r\y possibk. UP FERNLEY ROAD. 183 It would have been a touching picture, hadthere been any one there to see. Unluckily,not merely for the sake of the picture, but forthat of the children themselves, there was noone. 184 LITTLE MISS PEGG T. CHAPTER XII. THE SHOES-LADY AGAIN. Fll love you through the happy years,Till Fm a nice old lady. —Poems Written for a Child. When they woke, both of theni at the samemoment it seemed, though probably one hadroused the other without knowing it, the sunhad gone, the sky looked dull, it felt chilly andstrange. Peggy had thought it must be pastdinner-time before they had sat down to rest;it seemed now as if it must be past tea-timetoo! Sarah started up, Peggy feebly clinging toher. Oh, dear, dear, said Sarah, I shouldnthave gone to sleep, and its got that cold !She was shivering herself, but Peggy seemedmuch the worse of the two. She was whiteand pinched looking, and as if she were half-stupened. THE SHOES-LAD Y AG AW. 185 Im so
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