Chapter Three. What the Children Promised Their Mother
Chapter Four. A Dog and his Story
Chapter Five. Jenks Passes his Word
Chapter Six. Give the Poor Dog a Bone
Chapter Seven. At the Derby
Chapter Eight. A Ghost in the Cellar
Chapter Nine. Flo in the Witness-Box
Chapter Ten. The Little Woman in Black
Chapter Eleven. Maxey’s Young ’Un
Chapter Twelve. I was An Hungered and Ye Gave Me Meat
Chapter Thirteen. The Bed God Lent to Flo
Chapter Fourteen. The Best Robe
Chapter Fifteen. Miss Mary
Chapter Sixteen. Bright Days
Chapter Seventeen. Two Locks of Hair
Chapter Eighteen. God Calls His Little Servant
Chapter Nineteen. Queen Victoria and Flo
Chapter Twenty. Sing Glory
Chapter Twenty One. The Prodigal’s Return
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When the royal carriage had passed by, the crowd immediately scattered, and then for the first time Flo perceived that she was deserted by her companions. She looked to right and left, before and behind her, but the little rough and ragged figures she sought for were nowhere visible.
She was still excited by the sight she had witnessed, and was consequently not much frightened though it did occur to her to wonder how ever she should find her way home again. She turned a few steps, – Saint James’s Park with the summer sunshine on it lay before her. She sat down on the grass, and pulled a few blades and smelt them – they were withered, trampled, and dry, but to Flo their yellow, sickly green was beautiful.
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“Oh! I doesn’t know – yes, it be werry dark, but I guess it ’ull be all right.” Then after a pause, very slowly, “I doesn’t mind the grave, I’d like a good bit o’ a rest, for I’m awful – awful tired.”
Then the undertaker’s men came, and a coffin was brought, and the poor, thin, worn body was placed in it, and hauled up by ropes into the outer world, and the children saw their mother no more.
