Leerie

And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;

A Child's Garden of Verses 2005

With these treasures he fled home in the gathering dusk, while 'Leerie-Light-the-Lamps' was kindling his cheery beacons along the streets, and, with pleasant terrors, devoured the weird productions, finally adding to their weirdness by the garish contents of a child's paint-box.

Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

Good Leerie, I wonder do you still light the lamps on Heriot Row, or have you too seen redder beacons on Flanders fields?

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

He seemed to think Pennsylvania a town, but finally we learned that the Misses Leerie lived in Sewickley where they were doing well, and sending back money to the "kiddies."

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

R.L.S. as a little child, peering from the windows at dusk to see Leerie light the street-lamps outside -- a quaint, thin, elvish face with shining brown eyes; or held up in illness by Cummie to see the gracious dawn heralded by oblongs of light in the windows across the Queen Street gardens.

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

R.L.S. may never have gratified his boyish wish to go round with Leerie and light the lamps, but he lit many and more enduring flames even in the hearts of those who never saw him.

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

But no longer does Leerie "with lantern and with ladder come posting up the street."

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

Heriot Row, the old home of R.L.S. in Edinburgh, as we waited for Leerie to come by and light the lamps.

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

In the evenings we used to wander up to Heriot Row in the long Northern dusk, to sit on the front steps of number 17 waiting for Leerie to come and light the famous lamp which still stands on the pavement in front of the dining-room windows:

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923