Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
One morning Mary awoke very early. It was in the month of May, and the mornings were light, and sometimes the sun shone in through the windows very brightly. Mary liked these mornings. The sunshine made everything in the room look so pretty; even the nursery furniture, which w...
It was two or three days after Fuzzy's running away with the perambulator that nurse, who was now quite well again, came in to breakfast in the nursery with a grave face, and wi...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN."Oh do come, nursie dear," said Mary. "It _are_ so much nicer when you come too," and baby cooed up in nurse's face for all the world as if she were saying "do come," too.
10. CHAPTER TEN.She felt _quite_ happy when she found herself at last settled by mamma's side in the victoria. She gave a deep sigh--it was a sigh of content-- just because she was so happy.
9. CHAPTER NINE.The spring turned into summer, and with the longer days and warmer sunshine and gentle rain there grew up a great many more "pretty things" for Mary to show to her little sister...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.I dare say it was silly of Mary to be so frightened; but then, you know, she was only a very little girl, and she was not used to rude or rough ways.
12. CHAPTER TWELVE.Ever since the day the children had waited for their father outside the Lavender Cottages--the day when it was settled that they were to have Fuzzy--the idea of training the dog...
3. CHAPTER THREE.There was a room next to Mary's mother's room which was not often used. Mary was rather surprised when her father carried her straight to this room instead of to her mother's. A...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.It had been a very happy day, even though everything seemed rather strange. Their father would have liked to stay with them, but he was obliged to go away. Nurse--I mean Artie's...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT."For some time, a quarter of an hour or so, I dare say, I stood at the shop door very contentedly. It was very amusing, as my father had said, to watch the bustle in the street....
1. CHAPTER ONE.One morning Mary awoke very early. It was in the month of May, and the mornings were light, and sometimes the sun shone in through the windows very brightly. Mary liked these mo...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.The children's father came back late that night, but too late for them to see him. And the next morning he had to be off again, this time for two whole days together, so there w...
2. CHAPTER TWO.Poor nurse was very sorry. But she knew it would not do to be _too_ sorry for Mary, for then she would go on crying. And once Mary got into a long cry it sometimes went on to be...
6. CHAPTER SIX."The puppies are getting on finely," he said. "Two of them are going to their new masters to-morrow. But I've held on to the one as Miss Mary fancied, thinking you'd be looking...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.Besides the three big boys, the children had counted six more young Perrys in the middle one of the Lavender Cottages, and by degrees they had found out most of their names. The...