One day Peter was going down to the village to get buns to celebrate the sensibleness of the Editor of the Children's Globe, when he met the Station Master. Peter felt very uncomfortable, for he had n...
I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.
I don't agree with you in the least, said Temple— about marriage, I mean. A man ought to want to get married— To anybody? Without its being anybody in particular? Yes, said Temple stoutly. If he gets...
Don't ask me no questions and I won't tell you no lies, the red-headed Ruth replied. You'll know soon enough. Late
But I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.
All three had been TAUGHT French at school. How deeply they now wished that they had LEARNED it!
Laburnum.
It is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself. It is not always their faults.
He said:— I don't want you to be polite to me if you don't know me when you see me. Eh? said the Station Master. I thought perhaps you didn't know it was me that took the coals, Peter went on, when yo...
Everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep all on.
You will think that they ought to have been very happy. And so they were, but they did not know HOW happy till the pretty life in the Red Villa was over and done with, and they had to live a very diff...
With gloomy face he picked it up And took it to his Mother, Though even he could not suppose That she could make another; For those who perished on the line He did not seem to care, His engine being m...
The house was three miles from the station, but, before the dusty hired hack had rattled along for five minutes, the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window and say, Aren't we nea...
Out, out, into the night,The belfry bells are ours by right!
Oh, Helen, I don't want to.''Then don't,' said Helen.'Ah, but I do want to, too.''Then do,' said she.'But don't you see, when you want to and don't want to at the same time, what are you to do? There...
Next day when they had sent the threefold wave of greeting to Father by the Green Dragon, and the old gentleman had waved back as usual, Peter proudly led the way to the station. But ought we? said Bo...
It was by the Green Dragon that the old gentleman travelled. He was a very nice-looking old gentleman, and he looked as if he were nice, too, which is not at all the same thing. He had a fresh-coloure...
He called me un-un-ungentlemanly, sobbed Phyllis. I didn't never call him unladylike, not even when he tied my Clorinda to the firewood bundle and burned her at the stake for a martyr. Peter had indee...
Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. But children will believe almost anything, and grown-ups know this. That is why they t...
Everything was pleasant that day somehow. There are days like that, you know, when everything goes well from the very beginning; all the things you want are in their places, nobody misunderstands you,...