Lady Rum-Di-Doodle-Dum's Children

Down on the edge of the Poppy Field there is a very large, wide lake; the largest lake you have ever seen. Of course there are deeper lakes across the mountains where you have n...

IN WHICH PETER SPILLS THE DEW OUT OF HIS POCKET AND IT CAUSES A GREAT DEAL OF BOTHER, BUT MR. SMITH, WHO IS THE KING OF FAIRIES, PUTS AN END TO THE TROUBLE

IN WHICH WE BEGIN TO REALIZE HOW CONVENIENT IT IS TO HAVE A PERSON LIKE FLIP ABOUT THE PLACE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE IS NOTHING MUCH TO DO; ALSO WE HEAR OF MR. MORIARITY AND THE...

Father was very busy in his den, with the blinds all drawn and the small log fire lit and a huge stack of papers on his desk. So Martha Mary was rather afraid when she tapped at...

“A very important person. Now, don’t interrupt! Smudge was asleep at the sunset end of the valley. There was a bald spot on his head, all grey and cold, and grey spots climbing...

IN WHICH EDWARD LEE AND WALTER GO ON THE WARPATH BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO, AND ON ACCOUNT OF THEM JOHN AND MARTHA MARY MISS HEARING THE MELODRAMA

It was Liza who discovered the secret. She was hiding from Hermit, and the best place to hide is under the sideboard, because Hermit is too large to crawl there. She was very qu...

It was Martha Mary’s birthday; the brightest, happiest birthday she could remember. But, of course, the last birthday a person has always seems the nicest. Everyone had presents...

“In the days of the good and splendid King Arthur there was an old letter-writer named Baudin. He lived in a small garden below the Castle wall, and the loveliest hollyhocks and...

Everyone was rather anxious to see how Mother Dear would receive Jane. Mother did not take to strange women as a general thing, but, as Flip explained later, Jane was hardly a w...

It all happened because Walter couldn’t learn how many times eight was seventy-two. The eight tables are hard enough, but when it comes to dividing by eight even John made mista...

IN WHICH ANOTHER JOHN AND ANOTHER MARY WANDER FURTHER FROM HOME THAN THEY EVER HAVE BEEN BEFORE, AND FIND A MARVELOUS BALL OF GLASS, IN WHICH ONE SEES THE STRANGEST THINGS

For a perfectly good story-teller Flip had some rather queer ideas. He didn’t believe in fairy tales: that is, the kind that told about witches and Godmothers and Princes and su...

IN WHICH WINFRED IS GIVEN THE MOST WONDERFUL WISH IN THE WORLD, AND I ADVISE YOU ALL TO READ IT AND LEARN WHAT IT IS, SO THAT IF, SOME DAY WHEN YOU ARE LEAST EXPECTING IT, A FAI...

IN WHICH, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME, I DO NOT TALK AT ALL, BUT AM WELL CONTENT TO SIT QUIETLY BY AND LISTEN TO THE LOVELY NEWS THAT L. H. D., WHO, YOU WILL REMEMBER, I T...