Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
There stood once, in the good old time--that is to say some fifteen years ago, which we may call ages for you, my little readers, who have not yet lost your pretty first teeth;--there stood, then, once, in a delightful valley, between Long-Pont and Savigny, in France, a charmi...
Tiny remembers now that the fairy had said her wings would last only till sunset, so she thinks it is time to fly towards home; for the sun is getting low already. You see, they...
4. CHAPTER IV.Some months later, when the Spring had come on, and the sun was beginning to give warmth, while the air was already perfumed with violets, Maurice was walking, one beautiful mor...
2. CHAPTER II.A Sister of Mr. de Roisel was married to a gentleman named Hector de Malassise, and they had an only child, a son, of about the same age as Maurice. They lived in the neighbourh...
1. CHAPTER I.There stood once, in the good old time--that is to say some fifteen years ago, which we may call ages for you, my little readers, who have not yet lost your pretty first teeth;-...
21. CHAPTER X."Now what moral lesson do you draw from your story? That boy, Eusèbe, who is about the naughtiest and most disagreeable boy that ever lived, is left just as well off, and as hap...
19. CHAPTER VIII.A few days after Eusèbe came into possession of the horse, in the way described in the last chapter, he went off with his father and mother to Dieppe for sea-bathing. He took Cr...
5. CHAPTER V.At the close of the last chapter I told you that an old gentleman had been looking on from a little distance, while Maurice and Adrienne were discussing the sale of the horse. A...
3. CHAPTER III.Mr. and Mrs. de Roisel were accustomed to spend the winter in Paris; and when November came on, and the time for their departure arrived, it was not without anxiety that Maurice...
18. Scene IV.This is a scene where our hunter was a looker-on, not an actor. He was on one of his expeditions with Jumbo, when they heard the trumpeting sound made by an elephant when angry....
14. CHAPTER VII.The course of my story obliges me now to follow the doings of Maurice's cousin Eusèbe through one chapter. His goat Jeanne had died some time ago; to her had succeeded a monkey,...
13. Scene VII.One night Willie is wakened up by a cry of "Fire! Fire!" He dresses in a moment, and rushes out into the farmyard. Here he finds his master and the farm-servants running about,...
6. CHAPTER VI.The visit of Mr. de Malassise and Eusèbe only lasted two days. Eusèbe went away very well satisfied with himself, for in those two days he had contrived to alarm his father seve...
20. CHAPTER IX.We must suppose that an interval of a year and a half has passed since the events happened which I related in the last chapter. The family of de Roisel are staying at Paris, as...
22. Scene I.A pretty little girl is Tiny, and she is also _now_ a very nice one, but she used to have one great fault--she was very conceited. She fancied herself the prettiest and cleveres...
17. Scene III.In one of his hunting expeditions, Mr. Lovesport finds an elephant asleep under some trees. He has only one attendant with him, a negro, named Jumbo; and this man takes it into...
16. Scene II.This is the way Mr. Lovesport once rode a Quagga. It is a kind of zebra, or wild ass, and is considered untameable. A friend of Mr. Lovesport--a colonist in southern Africa--had...
9. Scene III.The help promised to Willie by the hands makes him so happy that he runs and leaps with joy; but as evening draws on he feels very tired. He lies down under some trees, and eats...
12. Scene VI.One day, while the sheep are out on the hills, a heavy storm comes on, and the low ground between the hills is quickly flooded. Willie goes out to bring in his master's sheep, b...
15. Scene I.Mr. Lovesport has left his native land in search of larger game, and more adventurous and dangerous sport than he can find in England. One day in southern Africa he has cautious...
8. Scene II.Here is Willie, with his little bundle at his back, on his first day's journey to seek his fortune. As he walks along he is startled to observe a white cloud resting on the grou...
25. Scene IV."Croak! croak!" cries a frog, squatting on the bank of a stream; and the sound attracts Tiny. At the same moment, a fish, popping his nose out of the water, exclaims, "Stop that...
10. Scene IV.The next day Willie obtains employment in the service of a farmer. Here we see him in the corn-field reaping, and doing as much work as two strong men could do. But under the sh...
11. Scene V."If he can reap so well, perhaps he can plough," says the farmer to himself, as he leaves the cornfield; and the next morning sees Willie employed as a ploughman. The giant hand...
23. Scene II.After flying a little way, she settles down among some pretty wild flowers, and finds herself close to a large owl. "What are you?" he says, for he cannot see well in the daylig...
28. Scene VII.Then Tiny must have flown to a colder country, for here are a penguin and an eagle. "A nice cool breeze here!" says the penguin to Tiny, as he flaps his little wings, which look...
24. Scene III.Presently she sees a stork and a kangaroo, who appear to be at high words. "What an enormous tail you've got!" says the stork to the kangaroo; "and are those little bits of thin...
27. Scene VI.Here we have an ostrich and a toucan. I think Tiny must have flown a long way to meet with these strange birds: but she finds that they are quarrelling like all the rest. The to...
26. Scene V.Next Tiny alights on a terrace in a garden, where she sees a pretty white cat. Tiny calls, "Puss, puss!" when immediately out pops from among some cabbages a pert young hare. "D...
7. Scene I.Little Willie sits by the fire thinking. He lives in this cottage alone with his mother, who is out just now, and I will tell you what Willie is thinking about so earnestly. He...