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Ebook has 1082 lines and 61253 words, and 22 pages
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Neighbor Edith 4
Castle Marvel 13
A May Morning 18
Patches and Perseverance 26
Kate's Great-great-Grandmother 34
In the Woods 47
The Old Monsieur's Story 61
Butternut and Blue 73
A Secret 77
Consolation 87
Julie, Julien and Oncle le Capitaine 94
The Voices 129
Moonshine 132
Sunshine 136
Czar and Carpenter 144
Queen Mabel 166
Princess Gerda 174
Jungenthor, the Giant 188
Little Florence 208
A Centennial Tea-pot 214
In Lilac Time 218
Blue Eyes 221
The Apple-Gathering 222
Good-by, Little Bird 223
He Will Come Back 224
Katy 226
Marie 228
The Banjo 231
Winsome Maggie 233
A Happy Pair 235
Sigs Veegs Ofer 238
The Child on the Battle-Field 239
Pinkety-Winkety-Wee 242
Puss in a Quandary 243
Lena Laughed 244
'Tis the Apples 245
Fooled 246
A New Toy 247
Charley on Horseback 248
Cruel! 249
Cluck, Cluck! 250
Bobbie and the Bee 250
NEIGHBOR EDITH.
The north-west wind, driving feathery flakes of snow before it, heaps up gray masses of cloud over the sunny afternoon, and then, as if bent on subduing what cheeriness remains among the shadows it has brought, howls dismally down the chimneys, moans at the casements dismally. The Lieutenant throws himself down on the lounge, and draws a long sigh. Kate slips quietly out of the room, catches up her shawl and hat from the rack in the hall, and her brother, hearing her go down the steps into the street, wonders where she is bound for, and why she didn't say something about it, and then falls back into his gloomy reverie.
"It may be 'sweet for one's country to die'; but to live on, a shattered, helpless wreck"--and, at the thought, he gripes the curving frame of the lounge with his one hand, and his firm-set lips quiver; when, suddenly, without the faintest footfall to indicate the approach of any one, two little arms creep about his neck, and between silvery peals of laughter a shower of kisses falls over forehead and sightless eyes, on either cheek, on nose, mouth and chin. "There!" cries a childish, laughing voice, "I surpized you, didn't I? Ha, ha, ha!"
"Ha, ha!" echoes the Lieutenant, coming directly from a horizontal to a sitting posture, his arm around the wee mite, "so you did 'surpize' me, midget. And where did you come from? Did you drop out of the sky?"
"Out of the sky!" repeats the little maiden, with a great deal of scorn and emphasis. "Why, I comed right from our house! Katy comed after me, and we went round to the back door, so you wouldn't hear, and then Katy took off my shoes, and I comed up on tiptoe in my stocking-feet. Ha, ha! I surpized you, didn't I? I'm go'n to 'gin!" and away she rushes across the room and back against him, pell-mell, arms about his neck, and kisses raining all over his face. "There! how do you like it?" and the room rings with her musical laughter--in which the Lieutenant once more joins, with--
"My dear young lady, I must confess that I haven't the least objection to the proceeding."
"Why, so she is, just a mere baby."
"You don't say! And what is this Edith has in her hands--a doll?"
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