the Rescue, 256.
The Song of a Little Bird, 267.
Poor Pussy, 313.
A Morning Visit, 333.
The Rival Mothers, 337.
A Helping Hand, 345.
"Father's Coming," 348.
The Legend of the Reeds, 358.
The Birds' Petition, 368.
Little Doctor May, 375.

Prize Competitions—
Picture Pages Wanting Words, &c, and Answers, 58, 64, 124, 128, 188, 192, 252, 320, 379.
Lists of Honour. 58, 124, 188.
The Little Folks Special Prize Competitions for 1884, 62.
The Little Folks Annual for 1885, 252.
A New Little Folks Painting Book Competition, 319.

Prize Puzzle Competitions—61, 126, 190, 254, 318, 378.

Puzzles, Our Little Folks' Own, and Answers—58, 60, 125, 128, 188, 189, 253, 317, 320, 374, 377.

Questions and Answers—63, 127, 191, 255, 319, 379.

Railway Trains and Their Story, Some Famous
The "Flying Dutchman," 39.
The "Wild Irishman," 86.
The "Flying Scotchman," 204.
The Continental and "Tidal" Mails, 346.

Serial Stories—
A Little Too Clever. By the Author of "Pen's Perplexities," "Margaret's Enemy," &c. &c, 1, 65, 129, 193, 257, 321.
Their Road to Fortune: the Story of Two Brothers. By the Author of "The Heir of Elmdale," &c, 32, 93, 163, 224, 281, 348.

Short Stories—
Too Young for School, 21.
How Paulina Won Back Peter (A Fairy Story), 47.
The King and Queen's Quarrel, 78.
Master Tom's "Rainy Weather," 88.
Jemmy's and My Adventure, 101.
A Game of Cricket in Elfland (A Fairy Story), 105.
The Little Flowers' Wish, 116.
Andy's Brave Deed, 147.
What Came of a Foxglove (A Fairy Story), 172.
A Foraging Expedition in South America, 207.
Little Fé, 218.
What the Magic Words Meant (A Fairy Story), 235.

A Young Roman's Sacrifice (A True Story), 239.
The Discontented Boat, 242.
Harry's Prize Rabbit, 242.
The Rival Kings (A Fable in Four Situations), 276.
"Whistling for It," 271.
The Magic Music and its Message (A Fairy Story), 293.
Mab, the Wolf, and the Waterfall, 299.
"Where there's a Will there's a Way," 302.
"Home, Sweet Home;" or, Lost in London, 302.
Faithful to Her Trust (A True Story), 332.
Little Bab and the Story-Book, 341.
Hedwig's Christmas Presents, 355.
A Race for a Cat (A Fairy Story), 361.
Ethel's Pink Plant, and what Happened to it, 364.

Stories, Poems, and Pictures of Birds, Beasts, and Fishes—
Fighting with a Shadow, 12.
Madge's Dove, 16.
A Practical Joke, 28.
Mornings at the Zoo—
The Stork Family, 41.
About the Bats, 104.
In the Fish-house, 170.
The Kangaroos, 297.
A Race on the Sands, 77.
The Kingfisher and the Fishes, 81.
The Maids and the Magpie, 91.
About the Frankolin, 121.
Summer Visitors, 140.
Buried Alive; or, Love Never Lost on a Dog, 158.
A Foraging Expedition in South America, 207.
All about Snails, 232.
Harry's Prize Rabbit, 242.
The Rival Kings (A Fable in Four Situations), 276.
The Fox and the Frog, 288.
Poor Pussy, 313.
Going to Sea in a Cage, 334.
The Rival Mothers, 337.
A Helping Hand, 345.
The Birds' Petition, 368.

Sunday Afternoons, Our—
Solomon's Dream at Gibeon, 18.
The Dream of the Barley Cake, 82.
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream of the Huge Tree, 154.
The Dream of Pilate's Wife, 214.
A Dream for all Ages, 306.
Saved by a Dream, 338.
Bible Exercises, 20, 84, 156, 216, 308, 340.

Westminster Abbey, Stories Told in—
How the Abbey was Built, 14.
The Coronations in the Abbey, 113,
Royal Funerals in the Abbey, 176.
Curious Customs and Remarkable Incidents, 222.
The Sanctuary, Cloisters, and Chapter-House, 291.
The Monuments, 366.

A LITTLE TOO CLEVER.

By the Author of "Pen's Perplexities," "Margaret's Enemy," "Maid Marjory," &c.

CHAPTER XX.—MRS. MACDOUGALL FINDS DUNCAN.

A whole week elapsed, in which Mrs. MacDougall received no tidings of the children. Every day she trudged to the market-town and back, not able to bear the suspense without doing something. Every day she received the same answer, and turned away with a weary sigh. The men who answered her questions noticed her change from day to day, and shrank from giving her the same hopeless replies time after time. They were puzzled and astonished, but still confident that the children would ultimately be found. In their own minds they believed the children had fallen in with some wandering gipsies or other vagrants, and were being closely guarded. They knew well enough that there were plenty of ways of stealing children, and keeping them out of sight in barges, colliers, or gipsies'