Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
While writing this title, I paused, considering whether the little girl to whom it refers would not say of it, as she sometimes does of other things, “You make a mistake.” For she is such a very accurate little person. She cannot bear the slightest alteration of a fact. In her...
While writing this title, I paused, considering whether the little girl to whom it refers would not say of it, as she sometimes does of other things, “You make a mistake.” For s...
2. CHAPTER II.Next morning Little Sunshine was awake very early, sitting upright in bed, and trying to poke open her mamma’s eyes; then she looked about her in the new room with the greatest...
3. CHAPTER III.Little Sunshine had never yet beheld the sea. That wonderful delight, a sea-beach, with little waves running in and running back again, playing at bo-peep among shingle and rock...
4. CHAPTER IV.Nelly turned out more and more of an acquisition every day. Pretty as this new place was, Little Sunshine was not quite so happy as the week before. She had not so many things t...
5. CHAPTER V.The pier Sunny started from was one near the mouth of a large estuary or firth, where a great many ships of all sorts are constantly coming and going. Sometimes the firth is ver...
6. CHAPTER VI.7. did. But the first thing she did on waking next morning was to creeppast the sofa where Sunny lay,--oh, so fast asleep! having had a good scream overnight, as was natural after all her fatigues,--steal cautiously to the window, and look out.
8. CHAPTER VII.Life at the glen went on every day alike, in the simplest, happiest fashion, a sort of paradise of children, as in truth it was. Even the elders lived like children; and big peo...
9. CHAPTER VIII.The days sped so fast with these happy people, children and “grown-ups,” as Sunny calls them, that soon it was already Sunday, the first of the only two Sundays they had to spen...
10. CHAPTER IX.The forebodings of the disappointed salmon-fishers turned out true. That wet Monday was the first and last day of rain, for weeks. Scarcely ever had such a dry season been known...
11. did. May God take care of them when we can do it no more!The week had rolled by,--weeks roll by so fast!--and it was again Sunday, the last Sunday at the glen, and just such another as before: calm, still, sunshiny; nothing but peace...
12. CHAPTER X.Little Sunshine’s delicious holiday--equally delicious to her papa and mamma, too--was now fast drawing to a close. This Sunday sunset, more gorgeous perhaps than ever, was the...
13. CHAPTER XI.The last day came,--the last hour. Sunny, her mamma, and her Lizzie, had to turn their ways homeward,--a long, long journey of several hundred miles. To begin it at four in the...