All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
I am aware these little books don't last long even if they are a success.
Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in th...
For behind the wooden wainscots of all the old houses in Gloucester, there are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors; and the mice run from house to house through those long narrow passages; t...
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.
He had grown; several buttons burst off. His
At a quarter past four to the minute, there came a most genteel little tap-tappity.
WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen!
Then all at once there was a flutterment and a scufflement and a loud Squeak! The other squirrels scuttered away into the bushes.When they came back very cautiously, peeping round the tree--there was...
Everything he broke. He found a crooked sixpence under the hearth-rug; and upon Christmas Eve he and Hunca Munca stuffed it into one
Kept glancing uneasily
No more twist!
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