_"Father, I am lonely in the dark. I want my eyes, my patient,
willing eyes."_ 103
_"A dot and--" here he glanced at the baby--"A dot and carry--I
won't say it, for fear I should spoil it; but I was very near
a joke."_ 108
_Tilly Slowboy_ 112
_"That's the way I found him, sitting by the roadside! Upright as
a milestone."_ 118
_When suddenly, the struggling fire illuminated the whole chimney
with a glow of light; and the Cricket on the Hearth began
to chirp!_ 166
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