Very Short Stories and Verses For Children

"I dare say I shall tire long before I get there," he answered sadly. "Perhaps without knowing it, though, I shall reach it in my sleep," he added. But they hardly heard the las...

These stories, with the exception of the first one, are reprinted from two little books--"Children Busy," etc., and "Under Mother's Wing." They were then only signed with my ini...

I have often sat and thought about that kite, and wondered who its father and mother were. Perhaps they were very poor people, just made of newspaper and little bits of common s...

"Last summer," she said, "a little girl, bigger than you, for she was just able to walk, came to stay in that house--she and her father and mother. All about the road just here,...