Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
Tearing off his coat, Tom sprang into the road.
Hurrah for Peter Perry!
BY
ELEANORA H. STOOKE
AUTHOR OF
"THE BOTTOM OF THE BREAD PAN," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY F. MEYERHEIM
LONDON
WELLS GARDNER, DARTON & CO., LTD.
3 & 4 PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, E.C.4
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
WELLS GARDNER, DARTON & CO., LTD.
CONTENTS
CHAP.
CHAPTER I. THE BEGINNING OF THE HOLIDAYS
CHAPTER II. AN OPPORTUNITY MISSED
CHAPTER III. THE GIPSIES' ENCAMPMENT
CHAPTER IV. AN UNEXPECTED CALL
CHAPTER V. LOST—AND FOUND AGAIN
CHAPTER VIII. TOM'S PRESENCE OF MIND
CHAPTER IX. "UNA AND THE LION"
CHAPTER X. TOM MEETS THE DWARF
CHAPTER XII. THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Tearing off his coat, Tom sprang into the road.
It was no other than Peter Perry's dog, Bounce.
"A dwarf!" Tom exclaimed, and stopped to look at him.
Hurrah for Peter Perry!
CHAPTER I
THE BEGINNING OF THE HOLIDAYS
"WE'RE not to go to the seaside? Oh, Mother, why not?"
"Because, dear, we can't afford it. I'm very, very sorry, but youmust try to enjoy your holidays at home; and, please, Tom, don't letyour father guess that you greatly mind—of course, it's only naturalthat you should be disappointed."
The scene was the comfortable though decidedly shabby sitting-roomat No. 3 Ladysmith Terrace, a row of new houses on the outskirtsof Chilaton, a large provincial town; and the speakers were Mrs.Burford, a pretty, rather delicate-looking woman of thirty, and herten-year-old son, Tom, whose usually bright face was now wearingan expression of mingled amazement and dismay. It was a pleasantafternoon at the close of July, and on the previous day the school,which Tom attended as a day-scholar, had broken up for the longholiday. Always, hitherto, Mr. Burford, who was a clerk in a bankin Chilaton, had taken his holiday in August, and gone with hisfamily to the seaside; but Mrs. Burford had just told Tom thatthat programme could not be carried out this year.
"You see," she continued, "we have had extra expens