Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

The Hope of the Katzekopfs; or, The Sorrows of Selfishness. A Fairy Tale.

“Say you so, gentle Reader? Well, perhaps, after all, there is nothing very extraordinary in the fact that a man who was born some two hundred and fifty years ago should be forgotten. Well I wot that William Churne is not the only one who is in that predicament. And yet my nam...

Chapters

13. CHAPTER VI.

The Hope of the Katzekopfs was alone once more: the Lady Abracadabra had brought her countrymen another apprentice, in his place, and Prince Eigenwillig’s term of servitude was...

11. CHAPTER V.

How is it that the faithful hound succeeds in finding his way back to his master’s house, from a distance of many miles, and through a country which he has never been permitted...

9. CHAPTER IV.

The events recorded in the last chapter took place, as the judicious reader will have anticipated, a short time previously to that visit of the Lady Abracadabra to the Court of...

5. CHAPTER II

And Eigenwillig he was called. There was no help for it. Even Queen Ninnilinda soon saw that. She flew into a violent passion, indeed, and called her husband an old goose, and t...

7. CHAPTER III.

Many and many a mile from King Katzekopf’s Court,—in a valley among those Giant Mountains, which separated his territories from the neighbouring kingdoms, stood the Castle of Ta...

3. CHAPTER I.

Never were such rejoicings heard of before as those which took place at the Court of King Katzekopf when it was announced that Queen Ninnilinda had got a little boy. It was what...

14. CHAPTER I. On the Necessity of a Prescribed Rule of Daily Life.

“This work is printed, in the hope that it may prove acceptable to any of the Clergy who may be in want of a Memorandum Book with reference to the Statistics, and general condit...

1. CHAPTER VI.

“Say you so, gentle Reader? Well, perhaps, after all, there is nothing very extraordinary in the fact that a man who was born some two hundred and fifty years ago should be forg...

10. CHAPTER V.

12. CHAPTER VI.

_Morocco._ “The first of gold, who this inscription bears: ‘Who chuseth me, shall gain what many men desire.’ The second silver, which this promise carries: ‘Who chuseth me, sha...

2. CHAPTER I.

4. CHAPTER II.

6. CHAPTER III.

8. CHAPTER IV.