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  ILLUSTRATIONS

  Virgina left the farmhouse, carrying her fiddle and the pail of cats, and the blizzard swallowed her up. _Frontispiece_

  "I guess they won't eat much, because Milly Ann catches all kind of live things. I don't like her to do that, but I heard she was born that way and can't help it." 56

  "You needn't feel so glad nor look as if you was goin' to tumble over. It ain't no credit to anyone them curtains was on the shelf waitin' to be cut up in a dress for you to fiddle in." 136

  "Play for me," Theodore said. "Stand by that big tree so I can look at you." 216