Category: Short Stories
Transcriber's note: Spelling and punctuation inconsistencies have been harmonized. Obvious printer errors have been repaired. Paragraph breaks, as they are in the book, have been retained. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_.
When Louis entered the room, where the family usually assembled, he found the old French gentleman had come to dine with them; though there was nothing on the table, but a dish...
5. Part 5"I think we must call it Croppy, for you know how the little lambs crop the short grass. How glad I shall be if we can rear it. I never had a pet in my life, and a pet lamb, of...
8. Part 8Julia, who was nearly two years older than Emily, had written this letter with much more ease than her friend could read it. She, at last, however, succeeded in deciphering it;...
4. Part 4"And why should you not, my dear girl," said the lady into whose house Jenny had been carried, and who had listened with great interest to the conversation between the brother a...
10. Part 10OSWALD.--Why, I asked him that question, but he confessed that he was at so great a loss for models that he was glad to imitate any thing he could get; and that, having no instr...
3. Part 3Very little preparation was necessary, and in a few minutes the kind hearted woman hastened to the house of sickness, accompanied by the little girl, and followed by her husband...
11. Part 11The little boy was in distress, and he was compassionate; but what was to be done? The wharf contained no individual, but themselves and the sailors; the wind was fair, and the...
9. Part 9It was with difficulty that Charlotte consented to be helped to any thing, and uniformly after tasting it laid each article on the side of her plate, as if unfit to eat. After s...
2. Part 2"Most assuredly," replied Mr. Ormsby; "and you have given us another proof that those who find the greatest pleasure in terrifying others, are, in general, very easily terrified...
1. Part 1Transcriber's note: Spelling and punctuation inconsistencies have been harmonized. Obvious printer errors have been repaired. Paragraph breaks, as they are in the book, have bee...
6. Part 6"What can George be about?" said the mother, looking out of the window, and straining her anxious eyes in hopes of catching a glimpse of him as he came across the common; "he ne...
12. Part 12MRS. CAMELFORD.--To persons in health I know it is, but though the air is clear and mild, it may be chilly to poor Cornelia, who is enfeebled by sickness, and who has been so lo...