Category: Short Stories
The Brownies: Their Book
AS Brownies rambled 'round one night, A country schoolhouse came in sight; And there they paused awhile to speak About the place, where through the week The scholars came, with smile or whine,
Category: Short Stories
AS Brownies rambled 'round one night, A country schoolhouse came in sight; And there they paused awhile to speak About the place, where through the week The scholars came, with smile or whine,
The works that serve the town of Bray With gas are scarce two miles away. To-morrow night we'll come and bear, As best we can, this burden there; And when inflated, fit to rise,...
2. Chapter 2ONE time, while Brownies passed around An honest farmer's piece of ground, They paused to view the garden fair And fields of grain that needed care. "My friends," said one who o...
4. Chapter 4With branches broken off to suit, And grass uplifted by the root, In vain some daring Brownies tried To brush the buzzing plagues aside. Said one, whose features proved to all T...
1. Chapter 1AS Brownies rambled 'round one night, A country schoolhouse came in sight; And there they paused awhile to speak About the place, where through the week The scholars came, with...
5. Chapter 5Some seized a neck and some a head, And some a wing, and some a shred Of tail, or aught that nearest lay, To help them mount without delay. Then rose wild flaps and piercing scr...