Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
The children sat round me in the gloaming. There were several of them; from Madge, dear Madge with her thick fair hair and soft kind grey eyes, down to pretty little Sybil--Gipsy, we called her for fun,--whom you would hardly have guessed, from her brown face and bright dark e...
The children sat round me in the gloaming. There were several of them; from Madge, dear Madge with her thick fair hair and soft kind grey eyes, down to pretty little Sybil--Gips...
2. CHAPTER TWO.Louisa was a little girl of eight years old. That is to say, she was eight years old at the time I am going to tell you about. She was nothing particular to look at; she was sma...
3. CHAPTER THREE.When I was a little girl I was called Meg. I do not mean to say that I have got a different name now that I am big, but my name is _used_ differently. I am now called Margaret,...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.There was once a boy who was a very good sort of a boy, except for two things; or perhaps I should say one thing. I am really not sure whether they were two things, or only two...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.They say that the world--and of course that means the people in it--has changed very much in the last half century or so. I daresay in some ways this is true, but it is not in a...
6. CHAPTER SIX.Miss Judy was a kind-hearted, gentle-mannered little girl. She was pretty and healthy and clever--the sort of child any parents might have been proud of, any brothers and sister...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.One cold winter's evening about Christmas time, Charlie, a little boy of six years old, sat reading with his mother. It was Sunday evening, and he had been looking at the pictur...