Category: Short Stories

Plain tales, chiefly intended for the use of charity schools

Anonymous· 2 chapters· 5,290 words

Sukey Dawkins and Polly Wood had been some time in the charity-school. They had behaved very well, and could do a good deal of work: they were regular in going at the exact time, and so soon as school hours were over, they went strait home to see what they could do to assist t...

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1. Part 1

Sukey Dawkins and Polly Wood had been some time in the charity-school. They had behaved very well, and could do a good deal of work: they were regular in going at the exact time...

2. Part 2

O! said Phebe Talkative, one day to Nancy Diligent, I wish I had finished my work――what a long seam this is, I think I never shall have done. Nancy told her she wished she would...