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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
Transcriber's Note.
SOME LITTLE PEOPLE
BY
GEORGE KRINGLE
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
Publishers
Copyright, 1881,
by
Dodd, Mead & Company.
SOME LITTLE PEOPLE.
CHAPTER I.
'Lisbeth Lillibun lived a hundred miles from London. If she had notlived a hundred miles from London, it is likely you would never haveheard of her. She would have liked it better had somebody else livedwhere she did instead of herself. 'Lisbeth was a very little girl whenshe found out that she lived a hundred miles from London. So was Dickon,her brother, very little when he found it out, but he did not care somuch about it; indeed I think he did not care at all.
'Lisbeth always remembered the day upon which she found it out. Shecould not quite count a hundred herself at the time; she could[8] countten, but had not learned to count a hundred. She had heard Gorham counta hundred, and knew that it was a great many more than ten. She thoughtthat ten was a great many. She knew that ten miles must be a great way;she had several times wa