Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
The question seemed to have been long under consideration, to judge by the manner in which it came out of the pouting lips of that sturdy young five-year-old gentleman, David Merrifield, as he sat on a volume of the great Latin Dictionary to raise him to a level with the tea-t...
The question seemed to have been long under consideration, to judge by the manner in which it came out of the pouting lips of that sturdy young five-year-old gentleman, David Me...
2. Chapter 2MRS. MERRIFIELD had taught her children herself, till Samuel and Henry began going to the Curate for a couple of hours every day, to be prepared for school. Lessons were always...
3. Chapter 3“GRANT to us, Thy humble servants, that by Thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be good, and by Thy merciful guiding may perform the same,” spelt out David with s...
4. Chapter 4THE most part of church-time Johnnie was eating Nurse Freeman’s plum-cake. Perhaps this did not make him any easier in the conscience, but he had a very unlucky sentiment, that...
5. Chapter 5WITH Monday morning began the earning of the pig. Miss Fosbrook’s first business after prayers was to deal out the week’s allowance—sixpence to each of the four elders, threepen...
6. Chapter 6WHAT an entirely different set of beings were those Stokesley children in lesson-time and out of it! Talk of the change of an old thorn in winter to a May-bush in spring! that w...
7. Chapter 7IT is not worth while to go on describing every day at Stokesley, since lessons were far too much alike; and play-times, though varied enough for the house of Merrifield, might...
8. Chapter 8THE second week was prosperous: the treasury made progress; and Christabel began to feel as if her pupils were not beyond her management, as at first she had feared. Collectivel...
9. Chapter 9MISS FOSBROOK soon knew what Mrs. Merrifield meant by saying that visits at the Park unsettled the children. Susan indeed, though liking anything that shortened lessons by an ho...
10. Chapter 10“What is it, my dear?” said Miss Fosbrook, tenderly putting her arm round Susan; but she sobbed too much to make a word distinct, and Bessie held out the letter to her governess...
11. Chapter 11HAL had got into a mood in which he was tired of fears and of waiting for tidings, and was glad to shake off the thought, and be carried along to something new, he and the Grevi...
12. Chapter 12SATURDAY’S post brought a letter, and a comfortable one. All Thursday Mrs. Merrifield had been in so doubtful a state, that her husband could not bear to write, lest he should f...
13. Chapter 13THE Monday after the loss of the pence was a pouring wet day. The whole court was like a flood, and the drops went splashing up again as if in play; Purday wore his master’s old...
14. Chapter 14NOTHING had as yet befallen Henry, for he came down to breakfast in the morning; but his father did not greet him, and spoke no word to him all the time they were in the room to...
15. Chapter 15STILL the silence lasted. Henry had tried at first to persuade himself that it was only by chance that he never heard his own name from lips that used to call it more often than...
16. Chapter 16IDEAS were slow in both entering or dying out of David’s mind; but while there they reigned supreme. Carpentry had come in as the pig had gone out, and with the more force, beca...