Category: Short Stories

Wenonah's Stories for Children

Lois was ten years old and Hal was eight. They thought there was no fun so nice as wading in the salt water and letting the foam break over their legs. Of course it was better still to have Daddy put the water-wings on them and let them float, and give them swimming lessons. T...

Chapters

6. CHAPTER VI.

The next time Lois and Hal asked Wenonah for a story she said she had noticed how happy they seemed to be together and that they made her think of a little brother and sister sh...

7. CHAPTER VII.

"Don't you know any Indian stories, Wenonah?" asked Lois one day when they were all sitting together in the tent, watching the rain through the open door, just as Pierre and Ion...

5. CHAPTER V.

What a pleasant thing it is to be able to say of a boy, He is the strongest boy in the village--or the most honest boy in the village--or the kindest boy in the village--or, nic...

2. CHAPTER II.

When they took the train to go West to Michigan, Lois and Hal were very much interested in the sleeping car. They had never seen one before, and when their father tucked them in...

3. CHAPTER III.

You never saw a kinder, sweeter woman than Joe's mother. His name was Joseph but of course nobody called him that. He was a jolly, happy boy with lots of freckles on his nose, a...

4. CHAPTER IV.

"No, but she surely is," said Lois fervently. "She has a princess's clothes and a gold crown; and the most _wonderful_ thing is I wished for her. I could see the sky from my bed...

1. CHAPTER I.

Lois was ten years old and Hal was eight. They thought there was no fun so nice as wading in the salt water and letting the foam break over their legs. Of course it was better s...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

When Lois and Hal went home from their visits to Wenonah they would repeat her stories as well as they could to their father and mother, who liked them very much.