Legend-led

IT was a very warm afternoon in July. In a front room with a large bay window overlooking the sea and beach at F— were the three little Thurstons; and they were having their tea...

It was a young lady who spoke to Gypsy the next afternoon, as she was walking disconsolately along the beach, wishing it was not Sunday, that she might have a good romp with her...

IT was not a bedroom she was in now. A room with dark panelled walls and ceiling, with rows upon rows of books stretching from floor to roof, a table in the centre of the room,...

MISS GUBBINS had a difficult time for those first few weeks in the old house, and she longed for the advent of the master. Mrs. Peck ruled the household with a rod of iron. The...

IT was a wet day. Lessons had been done; dinner was over, and Miss Gubbins had told her little charges not to leave the schoolroom. She had been reading them some of the "Idylls...

CHANGES were rapidly made after the young master had come home, but Mrs. Peck was not got rid of without a terrible struggle, and Miss Gubbins had to leave her poetry books and...

ONE sunny morning Victor stood on the hall doorsteps drawing on his gloves. His high dog-cart, with a spirited young horse, was being brought round by the groom, when he caught...

IT was Gypsy's birthday. She woke early in the morning, in glad anticipation of the eventful day. It had seemed such a very long time since her last birthday; and so much had ha...

BUT run as they might, they could not overtake it, and at last, to their bitter disappointment and grief, it faded away in the distance, and they were left alone in the darkness...

POOR little Gypsy lay for many days in partial unconsciousness and in great pain. Her delirium was trying to witness: "Oh, save me! Save me! Agony is coming. I didn't mean to di...

THE boys were delighted to have their little sister back again. After tea they all sat round the nursery fire on the hearthrug, and talked as only children can. Claud's foot was...

Donald rushed into the schoolroom one afternoon with a hot, flushed face. He had been down in the stable-yard looking after the wants of some young puppies, and now found Claud...

The boys, after a long whispered consultation in a corner of the room, had disappeared, and Gypsy, with her thoughts full of the "Star of Bethlehem," was thinking busily as she...