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    Very Short Stories and Verses For Children
    Very Short Stories and Verses For Children
    Very Short Stories and Verses For Children
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    Very Short Stories and Verses For Children

    By W. K. Clifford and Edith Campbell

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Very Short Stories and Verses For Children - W. K. Clifford

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Very Short Stories and Verses For Children, by

      Mrs. W. K. Clifford

      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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      Title: Very Short Stories and Verses For Children

      Author: Mrs. W. K. Clifford

      Illustrator: Edith Campbell

      Release Date: October 16, 2009 [EBook #30272]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VERY SHORT STORIES AND VERSES ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Diane Monico, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive)

      VERY SHORT STORIES

      MRS. W. K. CLIFFORD

      Apple Blossom, I am waiting; are you here?      P. 14

      VERY SHORT STORIES

      AND

      VERSES FOR CHILDREN.

      BY

      MRS. W. K. CLIFFORD,

      Author of Anyhow Stories, &c.

      With Illustrations by Edith Campbell.

      LONDON:

      WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE,

      PATERNOSTER ROW.

      1886.

      Preface.

      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 initials. Some of the verses appear now for the first time.

      L. C.

      TO YOU—AND ETHEL AND ALICE

      CONTENTS.

      PAGE

      MASTER WILLIE 9

      SWINGING 17

      THE WOODEN DOLL 18

      WATCHING 20

      THE LIGHT ON THE HILLS 22

      WRITING A BOOK 25

      THE RABBIT 27

      THE SANDY CAT 28

      ON THE WAY TO THE SUN 30

      IN THE MOONLIGHT 33

      THE POOR LITTLE DOLL 35

      THE VIOLETS 37

      THE FIDDLER 39

      THE BROKEN HORSE 40

      THE RAINBOW-MAKER 41

      OVER THE PORRIDGE 43

      A-COMING DOWN THE STREET 45

      THE PROUD BOY 47

      SEEKING THE VIOLETS 49

      TOMMY'S STOCKINGS 51

      MIDSUMMER-NIGHT 52

      THE LITTLE MAID 54

      WAR 55

      PEACE 56

      MY LITTLE BROTHER 58

      THE KITE 59

      THE TINKER'S MARRIAGE 61

      THE CHILDREN AND THE GARLAND 62

      ROUND THE TEA-TABLE 64

      TOMMY 67

      THE SWALLOWS 69

      A FIRST LOVE-MAKING 71

      SMUT 72

      SEE-SAW 74

      THE BAD GIRL 75

      MORNING TIME 78

      THE PINK PARASOL 80

      THE SISTERS 82

      THE WHITE RABBITS 83

      THE WOODEN HORSE 84

      THE DUCK POND 86

      THE LITTLE MAID 88

      THE DONKEY ON WHEELS 89

      COCK-A-DOODLE 91

      THE BOY AND LITTLE GREAT LADY 92

      GOOD-DAY, GENTLE FOLK 94

      MASTER WILLIE.

      There was once a little boy called Willie. I never knew his other name, and as he lived far off behind the mountain, we cannot go to inquire. He had fair hair and blue eyes, and there was something in his face that, when you had looked at him, made you feel quite happy and rested, and think of all the things you meant to do by-and-by when you were wiser and stronger. He lived all alone with the tall aunt, who was very rich, in the big house at the end of the village. Every morning he went down the street with his little goat under his arm, and the village folk looked after him and said, There goes Master Willie.

      The tall aunt had a very long neck; on the top of it was her head, on the top of her head she wore a white cap. Willie used often to look up at her and think that the cap was like snow upon the mountain. She was very fond of Willie, but she had lived a great many years and was always sitting still to think them over, and she had forgotten all the games she used to know, all the stories she had read when she was little, and when Willie asked her about them, would say, No, dear, no, I can't remember; go to the woods and play. Sometimes she would take his face between her two hands and look at him well while Willie felt quite sure that she was not thinking of him, but of someone else he did not know, and then she would kiss him, and turn away quickly, saying, Go to the woods, dear; it is no good staying with an old woman. Then he, knowing that she wanted to be alone, would pick up his goat and hurry away.

      He had had a dear little sister, called Apple-blossom, but a strange thing had happened to her. One day she over-wound her very big doll that talked and walked, and the consequence was quite terrible. No sooner was the winding-up key out of the doll's side than it blinked its eyes, talked very fast, made faces, took Apple-blossom by the hand, saying, I am not your doll any longer, but you are my little girl, and led her right away no one could tell whither, and no one was able to follow. The tall aunt and Willie only knew that she had gone to be the doll's little girl in some strange place, where dolls were stronger and more important than human beings.

      After Apple-blossom left him, Willie had only his goat to play with; it was a poor little thing with no horns, no tail and

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