Mother Stories
by Maud Lindsay
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lindsay, Maud, 1874-1941
- Credits
- Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Children's stories
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 15929
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15929
- Release Date
- May 28, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.MOTHER STORIES — BY — MAUD LINDSAY — ILLUSTRATED by SARAH NOBLE-IVES — MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY — SPRINGFIELD MASS. 1928 — Bradley Quality Books
- 2.DEDICATED to MY MOTHER — Front Cover
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF STORIES
- 5.PREFACE
- 6.THE WIND'S WORK — "Now I am in my proper place," said the Kite.
- 7.MRS. TABBY GRAY — The lady followed her; and she led the way to the trunk.
- 8.FLEET WING AND SWEET VOICE — The little pigeons were taken in to see the king's daughter.
- 9.THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE LIGHT — The child took the tiny creature in her arms and held it close.
- 10.THE LITTLE GRAY PONY — When she came near the man she stopped to ask him his trouble.
- 11.HOW THE HOME WAS BUILT — So the House was built; a cozy room for the cooking and eating.
- 12.THE LITTLE TRAVELER — "There is always a way to get over the stream, Follow me! Follow me!"
- 13.THE OPEN GATE — "The gate is open, the brown colt's gone, the brindle calf's going, and we are thinking about it, quawk! quawk!"
- 14.INSIDE THE GARDEN GATE — PART I. — So the Grandmother played that she was a great yellow butterfly. — PART II. — PART III. — PART IV.
- 15.THE JOURNEY — As soon as the inn was reached the horses stopped.
- 16.The GIANT ENERGY & The FAIRY SKILL — Then she set him to work, bidding him sort a heap of tangled threads.
- 17.THE SEARCH FOR A GOOD CHILD — And the mother called from the kitchen—'Is that my sunbeam coming home to roost?'
- 18.THE CLOSING DOOR — One day * * * she had a visitor who came in without knocking.
- 19.THE MINSTREL'S SONG — Harmonius * * * touched his harp and sang.
- 20.DUST UNDER THE RUG — All the little dwarfs came running out to see what was the matter.
- 21.THE STORY OF GRETCHEN — The dearest Christmas Gift that ever came to a homesick little girl.
- 22.THE KING'S BIRTHDAY — "Mother, mother, here am I!" — Back Cover
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