Category: Short Stories
A pretty brown cottage, so small that the vines have no need to hurry themselves in climbing over it, but take plenty of time to creep along the eaves, to peep in at the windows, and even to stop and weave bowers over the doorways. Two “Baldwin” trees shade one end of the cott...
A pretty brown cottage, so small that the vines have no need to hurry themselves in climbing over it, but take plenty of time to creep along the eaves, to peep in at the windows...
2. CHAPTER II.HIGH times at Prairie-rose Cottage,—_high_ times indeed! For there is cousin Floy Plummer on her tiptoes; and there is little Effie Plummer hurrying with might and main to climb...
3. CHAPTER III.IN this story will be given a true and exact account of the Jimmyjohns’ affair with the gulls; also of the manner in which Jimmy was turned out of the little red house at the se...
4. CHAPTER IV.THIS chapter will tell why Mrs. Plummer had to sew very odd-looking patches on the Jimmyjohns’ sailor-suits. It will also tell what boy cut holes in those sailor-suits, and why...
5. did. Jimmy found Snip, and then went along to a shady place under aJohnny went round to Mr. Juniper’s store, and asked for a cent roll of checkerberry lozenges. Mr. Juniper had no cent rolls of lozenges; but he had striped candy, and some quite...
6. CHAPTER V.I am going to put some things about Effie in my diary; and this is the reason why I am going to put them in: My mother says, when Effie is a great girl she will like to read som...
7. CHAPTER VI.Mrs. Plummer holding “Josephus,” and Mr. Plummer, and grandma Plummer, and Hiram, take seats in the row, and play they are little children like the rest, waiting to hear the sto...
8. CHAPTER VII.The Jimmyjohns are never happy when their faces are being washed. Perhaps it is no more than right to tell the whole truth of the matter, and confess that they cry aloud at such...
9. CHAPTER VIII.One afternoon, when the Jimmyjohns were playing in the back-yard, Mr. Doty, the funny man as we sometimes call him, came jogging along. When he saw the little boys, he stopped,...
10. CHAPTER IX.“Ladies and gentlemen, it is known to you that our friend Mr. Tompkins has paid his forfeit, and that he has been judged to redeem it by telling a story. It was no more than rig...
11. SCENE I.—LADY C. _reclining in arm-chair. Enter_ MARGERY _with vaseMARGERY. Yes, my lady. Miss Flora—why, Miss Flora, she do frisk about so, pulls Elsie here, and then there,—“Now this flower, Elsie!” and “Now this nice one, Elsie!” That be a m...
12. SCENE II.—_Pretended gypsies seated in a tent, or on theground._ OLD WOMAN _counting over silver_, OLD MAN _looking on. He is dressed in old, ill-fitting clothes._ WOMAN _has a black handkerchief wound about her head, shabby dress, b...
13. SCENE III.—_Enter_ FLORA _and_ ELSIE, _hand in hand. Both haveFLORA. But I could take flowers for bed-clothes, and smell them all night. Oh! what a—(_stops suddenly, and listens_). I hear music. Hark! (_Music heard faintly, as if afar off....
14. SCENE IV.—TOMKINS, _in flashy costume, preparing for the show.There should be several objects, supposed to be statues or animals, covered with white cloth. The animals may be boys in various positions. The coverings will not be removed, as...
15. SCENE V.—LADY CAROLINE _reclining in her chair. She rings a bell.LADY C. She will be eager to tell all that has happened, and I shall be just as eager to hear. (MARGERY _fetches plates, &c._) Bring her small china mug, Margery (she likes that...
16. SCENE VI.—TRAMP _and his_ WIFE. _Old bags, bundles, and basketsMAN. ’Twouldn’t ha’ been a year, mammy, only we got no news o’ the reward. Fifty guineas, an’ no questions asked. Wal-a-day! Many’s the weary tramp we’s had that we needn’t a’.
17. SCENE VII. (_chiefly a tableau_).—LADY C. _sits with her arm round(MARGERY _goes to the door. Enter May-party and blind fiddler. They are arranged by_ MARGERY. _Gypsies watch the proceedings_,—OLD GYPSY _leaning on his staff with both hands_;...