Miss Mouse and Her Boys

'It's cold, isn't it?' he said. 'Still I don't think we shall have snow just yet,' and he glanced up at the sky. 'I want you, as soon as you can spare me a few minutes, Mattie,...

'She is a sweet little girl,' she said, when she and Aunt Mattie were by themselves. 'I do hope it will answer for her to come over to us, as we had thought of. Even though she...

Nance's story had taken longer to tell than might seem the case. For she had stopped now and then, and the children had asked questions and made remarks. So they were all a litt...

The winter was not going to set in just yet after all. That bright, clear, cold Sunday was followed by a week or two of milder but very disagreeable weather--almost constant rai...

The next half-holiday came on a Saturday--the Saturday of that same week--and as the weather was lovely just then, Aunt Mattie begged her sister to allow the three elder boys to...

Old Nance's way of speaking, like everything else about her, was peculiar to herself. Nobody could tell by it from what part of the country she had come, all that they could say...

'Oh!' she said. 'I never saw a moor before. What a long, long way you can see!' and her eyes, full of wonder and pleasure, gazed before them over the brown expanse, broken here...

It was before the days of sailor suits and knickerbockers. Nowadays boys would make great fun of the quaint little men in tight-fitting jackets, and trousers buttoning on above...

'I suppose you've finished your story,' said Justin gruffly, 'and then when you've nothing better to do you condescend to give _us_ your company. But I warn you, if you come wit...

'At the first glance,' continued Nance, 'the poor woman thought that it was all Robin's doing, but in another moment she saw that was impossible. The boy was only half-dressed a...

Aunt Mattie seemed rather absent-minded during the drive back--quite different from what she had been on their way to Moor Edge, which was the name of the boys' home. _Then_ she...

Aunt Mattie smiled again to herself at Justin's last words. She felt very much inclined to say that in _her_ opinion the two youngest boys were much less likely to get into misc...