Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
It was a lovely morning, about eleven o’clock, and the boys of the cathedral choir of St. Bede’s were playing in the cloister of the grand old church. There was a square plot of grass in the centre, where the boys used to amuse themselves during the intervals of school-work; w...
Alfred’s father had returned home, and had written to him saying that they were all coming to see him on the following day. It was not many miles from Darlton to the old city wh...
1. CHAPTER I.It was a lovely morning, about eleven o’clock, and the boys of the cathedral choir of St. Bede’s were playing in the cloister of the grand old church. There was a square plot of...
2. CHAPTER II.It was the first day of April, and a lovely morning, as Alfred was strolling slowly to school. In the distance he saw Cox and King talking earnestly together, and as he came nea...
6. CHAPTER VI.Mr. Cottenham was unable to show them the experiments he had promised, as he was engaged all the evening, so they went home after tea. A week later they again went to see him.
4. CHAPTER IV.The next morning Alfred got up very early to write a letter to his mother and tell her all the news, and at the same time send the half-crown. He had stayed longer than he inten...
3. CHAPTER III.Alfred moved away, and was soon afterwards joined by his friends Steve and Walter. Steve had just been telling Walter all about Mr. Cottenham’s clever parrot, and how it had sav...
5. CHAPTER V.Two days after this, Alfred received a letter from his mother which made him very happy. The letter said that his father would be back in about a fortnight, and would have time...
7. CHAPTER VII.Ten days passed, and Alfred received another letter from his mother, saying that his father was expected home in three days’ time. Moreover, the lady he had met at the deanery h...