Mother Carey's Chickens

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Wiggin Kate Douglas Smith. Mother Carey's Chickens

I. MOTHER CAREY HERSELF

II. THE CHICKENS

III. THE COMMON DENOMINATOR

IV. THE BROKEN CIRCLE

V. HOW ABOUT JULIA?

VI. NANCY'S IDEA

VII "OLD BEASTS INTO NEW"

VIII. THE KNIGHT OF BEULAH CASTLE

IX. GILBERT'S EMBASSY

X. THE CAREYS' FLITTING

XI. THE SERVICE ON THE THRESHOLD

XII. COUSIN ANN

XIII. THE PINK OF PERFECTION

XIV. WAYS AND MEANS

XV. BELONGING TO BEULAH

XVI. THE POST BAG

XVII. JACK OF ALL TRADES

XVIII. THE HOUSE OF LORDS

XIX. OLD AND NEW

XX. THE PAINTED CHAMBER

XXI. A FAMILY RHOMBOID

XXII. CRADLE GIFTS

XXIII. NEARING SHINY WALL

XXIV. A LETTER PROM GERMANY

XXV "FOLLOWING THE GLEAM"

XXVI. A ZOOLOGICAL FATHER

XXVII. THE CAREY HOUSEWARMING

XXVIII "TIBI SPLENDET FOCUS"

XXIX "TH' ACTION FINE"

XXX. THE INGLENOOK

XXXI. GROOVES OF CHANGE

XXXII. DOORS OF DARING

XXXIII. MOTHER HAMILTON'S BIRTHDAY

XXXIV. NANCY COMES OUT

XXXV. THE CRIMSON RAMBLER

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It was Captain Carey's favorite Admiral who was responsible for the phrase by which mother and children had been known for some years. The Captain (then a Lieutenant) had brought his friend home one Saturday afternoon a little earlier than had been expected, and they went to find the family in the garden.

Laughter and the sound of voices led them to the summer-house, and as they parted the syringa bushes they looked through them and surprised the charming group.

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Peter? Oh! Peter, aged four, can be dismissed in very few words as a consummate charmer and heart-breaker. The usual elements that go to the making of a small boy were all there, but mixed with white magic. It is painful to think of the dozens of girl babies in long clothes who must have been feeling premonitory pangs when Peter was four, to think they couldn't all marry him when they grew up!

"Then it goes on thus," laughed Nancy:—

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