Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 48354-h.htm or 48354-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48354/48354-h/48354-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48354/48354-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/clegkellyarabofc00crocrich CLEG KELLY ARAB OF THE CITY * * * * * * _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ Uniform Edition. Each, $1.50. Bog-Myrtle and Peat. "Here are idylls, epics, dramas of human life written in words that thrill and burn.... All are set down in words that are fit, chaste, and noble. Each is a poem that has the immortal flavor."—_Boston Courier._ The Lilac Sunbonnet. "A love story pure and simple—one of the old-fashioned, wholesome, sunshiny kind, with a pure-minded, sound-hearted hero and a heroine who is merely a good and beautiful woman; and if any other love story half so sweet has been written this year it has escaped our notice."—_New York Times._ New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue. * * * * * * [Illustration: From the lake arose the voice, mocking and bitter. (See page 260.)] CLEG KELLY ARAB OF THE CITY His Progress and Adventures by S. R. CROCKETT Author of The Lilac Sunbonnet, Bog-Myrtle and Peat, etc. Illustrated New York D. Appleton and Company 1896 Copyright, 1895, 1896, By D. Appleton and Company. CONTENTS. ADVENTURE PAGE I.—The outcasting of Cleg Kelly 1 II.—The burning of the Whinny Knowes 5 III.—Why Cleg Kelly hated his father 13 IV.—How Isbel Kelly heard sweet music 21 V.—The brigands of the city 29 VI.—Cleg turns burglar 38 VII.—The adventure of the cockroaches 45 VIII.—The flight of Sheemus 51 IX.—The warming of the Drabble 57 X.—The squaring of the police 62 XI.—The boy in the wooden hut 68 XII.—Vara Kavannah of the Tinklers' Lands 72 XIII.—Cleg's second burglary 80 XIV.—Cleg turns diplomatist 86 XV.—The fire in Callendar's yard 94 XVI.—In the key of boy natural 101 XVII.—The Knuckle Dusters 110 XVIII.—Big Smith subdues the Knuckle Dusters 116 XIX.—The pilgrims of the penny gaff 123 XX.—The difficulties of Adonis betwixt two Venuses 129 XXI.—An idyll of Bogie roll 139 XXII.—The seduction of a bailie 143