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JABBERING AND JAM. When the last lady had disappeared, and the Earl, taking his place at the head of the table, had issued the military order “Gentlemen! Close up the ranks, if you please!”, and when…
THE MAN IN THE MOON. The children came willingly. With one of them on each side of me, I approached the corner occupied by ‘Mein Herr.’ “You don’t object to children , I hope?” I began. “ Crabbed age…
FAIRY-MUSIC. The silence that ensued was broken by the voice of the musical young lady, who had seated herself near us, and was conversing with one of the newly-arrived guests. “Well!” she said in a …
WHAT TOTTLES MEANT. Mein Herr unrolled the manuscript, but, to my great surprise, instead of reading it, he began to sing it, in a rich mellow voice that seemed to ring through the room. “One thous…
BRUNO’S PICNIC. “As bald as bald,” was the bewildering reply. “Now, Bruno, I’ll tell you a story.” “And I’ll tell oo a story,” said Bruno, beginning in a great hurry for fear of Sylvie getting the s…
THE LITTLE FOXES. “So, when they got to the top of the hill, Bruno opened the hamper: and he took out the Bread, and the Apples, and the Milk: and they ate, and they drank. And when they’d finished t…
BEYOND THESE VOICES. “I didn’t quite catch what you said!” were the next words that reached my ear, but certainly not in the voice either of Sylvie or of Bruno, whom I could just see, through the cr…
TO THE RESCUE! “It isn’t bed-time!” said a sleepy little voice. “The owls hasn’t gone to bed, and I s’a’n’t go to seep wizout oo sings to me!” “Oh, Bruno!” cried Sylvie. “Don’t you know the owls hav…
A NEWSPAPER-CUTTING. EXTRACT FROM THE “FAYFIELD CHRONICLE.” Our readers will have followed with painful interest, the accounts we have from time to time published of the terrible epidemic which has, …
A FAIRY-DUET. The year—what an eventful year it had been for me!—was drawing to a close, and the brief wintry day hardly gave light enough to recognise the old familiar objects, bound up with so many…
