"Stories All Children Love"

A SET OF CHILDREN'S CLASSICS THAT SHOULD BE
IN EVERY WINTER HOME AND SUMMER COTTAGE

Cornelli
By JOHANNA SPYRI
Translated by ELISABETH P. STORK

A Child's Garden of Verses
By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

The Little Lame Prince & other stories
By MISS MULOCK

Gulliver's Travels
By JONATHAN SWIFT

The Water Babies
By CHARLES KINGSLEY

Pinocchio
By C. COLLODI

Robinson Crusoe
By DANIEL DEFOE

Heidi By JOHANNA SPYRI
Translated by ELISABETH P. STORK

The Cuckoo Clock
By MRS. MOLESWORTH

The Swiss Family Robinson
Edited by G. E. MITTON

The Princess and Curdie
By GEORGE MACDONALD

The Princess and the Goblin
By GEORGE MACDONALD

At the Back of the North Wind
By GEORGE MACDONALD

A Dog of Flanders By "OUIDA"

Bimbi By "OUIDA"

Mopsa, the Fairy By JEAN INGELOW

The Chronicles of Fairyland
By FERGUS HUME

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

Each Volume Beautifully Illustrated in Color.
Decorated Cloth. Other Books in This Set are in Preparation.

a little girl danced into the room

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THE CUCKOO
CLOCK

BY

MRS. MOLESWORTH

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY

MARIA L. KIRK

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

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COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A.

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To

MARY JOSEPHINE

and to the dear memory of her brother

THOMAS GRINDAL

both friendly little critics of my children's stories

Edinburgh, 1877

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CONTENTS

THE CUCKOO CLOCK

I. The Old House
II. Impatient Griselda
III. Obeying Orders
IV. The Country of the Nodding Mandarins
V. Pictures
VI. Rubbed the Wrong Way
VII. Butterfly-Land
VIII. Master Phil
IX. Up and Down the Chimney
X. The Other Side of the Moon
XI. "Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Good-bye!"

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ILLUSTRATIONS

A Little Girl Danced Into the Room
"Have You Got a Cuckoo in a Cage?"
She Could Not Help Very Softly Clapping Her Hands
"Are You Comfortable?" Inquired the Cuckoo
He Flapped His Wings, And Instantly a Palanquin Appeared at the Foot of the Steps
She Peered in with Great Satisfaction