Nobbles

[Frontispiece: NOBBLES WAS TIGHTLY GRASPED IN HIS HAND.] 'Me and Nobbles'

'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre

'Nobbles' was only a walking-stick, with a wonderful little ivory head.

'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre

'Nobbles' had been given to him a very long time ago by a sailor-brother of Nurse's, who came to tea at certain periods, and who related the most wonderful stories of foreign parts.

'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre

He got up in the tree now, and 'Nobbles' was tightly grasped in his hand.

'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre

Nobbles behind when they went to church if he persisted in playing with him.

'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre

He flung himself down on the grass by the roadside, clasping the remains of Nobbles in his arms, and sobbed in the most bitter and heart-broken fashion.

'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre

In an instant the boy, who was a bully by nature, had wrenched his precious stick away from him, and began to belabour him so unmercifully with it that in a moment poor Nobbles was snapped in two.

'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre

'Ah,' said his uncle, shaking his head at Nobbles, 'I would quite believe it of him.

'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre

'I loves you, Aunt Is'bel, and Master Mortimer, and True, but Nobbles comed to me first, and I couldn't stop loving him.

'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre

It was a long time to sit still, and Nurse would not let him talk to Nobbles.

'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre