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    The Old Castle and Other Stories
    The Old Castle and Other Stories
    The Old Castle and Other Stories
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    The Old Castle and Other Stories

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Old Castle and Other Stories - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Old Castle and Other Stories, by Anonymous

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Old Castle and Other Stories

      Author: Anonymous

      Release Date: May 2, 2007 [EBook #21278]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OLD CASTLE AND OTHER STORIES ***

      Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Sankar Viswanathan,

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of

      public domain works in the International Children's Digital

      Library.)

      THE LONELY COTTAGE

      page 53

      THE OLD CASTLE.

      AND

      Other Stories.

      LONDON: THOMAS NELSON AND SONS.

      EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.

      1881.

      Contents.

      THE OLD CASTLE.

      ow pleasant the parlour looked on the evening of Flaxy's birthday. To be sure it was November, and the wind was setting the poor dying leaves in a miserable shiver with some dreadful story of an iceberg he had just been visiting. But what cared Dicky and Prue, or Dudley and Flaxy, or all the rest sitting cosily around that charming fire, which glowed as if some kind fairy had filled up the little black grate with carbuncles and rubies? Over the mantle-piece were branches of pretty white sperm candles, whose light fell softly on the heavy red curtains and the roses in the carpet, and danced in the eyes of the happy children.

      They, the children, had been having a splendid time. They had played games, and put together dissected maps, and tried puzzles, and read in Flaxy's wonderful books; and since tea they had had a grand romp at fox and geese, even such big boys as Bernard and Dudley joining in; and now they were resting with pretty red cheeks and parted mouths.

      Well, what shall we do now? cried little Prue, who could not bear that a minute of the precious time should be wasted in mere sitting still.

      Why, isn't it a good time for some one else to tell his story? asked Flaxy.

      Just the thing, was the unanimous response. Another story! a story! and then a voice cried, And let Dudley Wylde tell it.

      Well, said Dudley, slowly, "if I must tell a true story about myself, I'm afraid it won't be much to my credit, but as Flaxy wasn't a coward about it, I'll try to be as brave as a girl. Shall I tell you something that happened to Bernard and me when we lived over in England?"

      Oh, please don't tell that story, Dud, pleaded Bernard with reddening cheeks, but all the rest cried, Oh, yes, go on, go on, and Dudley began.

      "You all know that Bernard and I were both left orphans when we were almost little babies, and Uncle Wylde sent for us to come and live with him—me first, and Bernard about a year afterwards. I was only six years old when Bernard came, but I remember I was very angry about it. Old Joe, the coachman, and I, had

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