Category: Short Stories
When I was a little girl, which is now a good many years ago, there came to spend some time with us a cousin who had been brought up in Germany. She was almost grown-up--to me, a child of six or seven, she seemed _quite_ grown-up; in reality, she was, I suppose, about fifteen...
Well, one day, as I was saying, the children, who had not seen old Betty for several weeks, were on their way to the village--two miles off--when near the corner of a lane, they...
1. CHAPTER I.When I was a little girl, which is now a good many years ago, there came to spend some time with us a cousin who had been brought up in Germany. She was almost grown-up--to me,...
3. CHAPTER III.Hitherto, every time I had seen the man, it had been either in some large public street where a crowd would not have been allowed to collect, or in one of the quieter roads of p...
2. CHAPTER II.One day several of us were out walking together. Meta was in front with mamma and one of my elder brothers, I was behind with Tony and Michael, the two nearer my own age. Sudden...
5. PART I.I am going to tell you a story that mother told us. _We_ think mother's stories far the most interesting and nicest of any we hear or read. And we are trying to write them all d...
6. PART II.The third reason why the children were so interested in the old pedlar woman was, I said, the strongest, though the strangest of all. She was an idiot! They were almost too youn...
4. did. So now he's about again, he has a little room in a street nearhere, that is paid for, and he gets a many pennies, does Davey, and the neighbours sees to him, and he's quite content, and he does no harm, and all the town knows silly Davey."