Miss Peggy and her Friends 
 
Dudley Hardy, Artist 
 
 
 
N the course of the cruise of the house-boat,       The Name- 
       less Barge," they are forced to come to a halt.  The cruise 
       is made through the loveliest part of the heart of England, 
and Miss Peggy is the heroine of the little love-story underrunning 
descriptions of scenery and historical reminiscence. 
     -'A bridge stopped us for a minute or two, and there happened 
to be a number of small folk on the bank, both boys and girls. 
But they were not to be enticed. He wheedled and coaxed; Miss 
Peggy helping him, without avail; either they stared with stolid 
eyes or grinned, and hung back.  *   *      *   And so gradu- 
ally leaving behind us the last twos and threes of the vagrant popu- 
lation, we sailed smoothly on. " 
        William Black's "Strange Adventures of a House-boaLt