Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
The Rag Pickers.
THE RAG PICKERS,
AND
Other Stories.
BY MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,
AUTHOR OF "TIM THE SCISSORS GRINDER," "SEQUEL TO TIM,"
"THE BOUND BOY," "THE PRIZE BIBLE,"
"TIM'S SISTER," ETC.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOYT,
NO. 9 CORNHILL.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by
HENRY HOYT,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court
of the District of Massachusetts.
DAKIN & DAVIES,
Electrotypers and Stereotypers,
21 Cornhill, Boston.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. THE RAG AND COAL FIELD.
CHAPTER II. THE COUNTERFEIT DOLLAR.
CHAPTER II. EDDY'S RESOLUTION.
CHAPTER I. VISIT TO THE GRAVEYARD.
CHAPTER II. WILLIE'S HAPPY DEATH.
CHAPTER I. ALICK'S DYING SONG.
CHAPTER II. THE PATIENT CHILD.
CHAPTER II. JOHNNY'S RESOLUTIONS.
The Little Rag Picker.
CHAPTER I.
THE RAG AND COAL FIELD.
"DADDY, isn't it almost time to go home?" called out littlesix-year-old Dilly Hogan. "Daddy, I'm tired, I am; I want to go homeand see mammy."
Her father, or Bill Hogan as he was called by his companions, was aman, with a hard, stern face. He heard his little girl, no doubt, forshe w