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قراءة كتاب Seven Little People and their Friends
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SEVEN LITTLE PEOPLE
AND THEIR FRIENDS
BY
HORACE E. SCUDDER
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862,
By Horace E. Scudder
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New York.
The Seven Little People who have lived with me for the last two or three years, and with whom I have been wont to entertain my friends among the children, are now about to leave their quiet home and make their appearance in society. The experience which they severally have enjoyed, whether under the sea or in Percanian palaces, or on desert islands, or upon birth-nights, has perhaps hardly fitted them for associating with the world's people; and yet, I trust, they will find some glad to receive them, and hear them tell of the friends whom they found in their various wanderings. It is true that two of these Little People have no friends at all, but then it was their own choice, for did they not deliberately cast themselves away, and abjure all society but that of their mute companion? It will be found also that in one of these Stories there are no Little People, but it is no more than just that the Friends should for once be allowed their drama to themselves. All of these Seven are the children of my brain, and I am somewhat loth to let them go so far from me; but if they find no hospitable fireside to receive them, they will at least always be welcome at mine.
Shahtah gets the coat on with difficulty.—See p. 178.CONTENTS
| THE THREE WISHES | |
|---|---|
| Wish the First—Under the Sea | 11 |
| Wish the Second—On the Mountain | 37 |
| Wish the Third and Last—In the Cottage | 49 |
| A CHRISTMAS STOCKING WITH A HOLE IN IT | |
| I. The Stocking is Hung | 57 |
| II. Midnight | 71 |
| III. Kleiner Traum Visits Peter Mit | 79 |
| IV. Kleiner Traum Visits David Morgridge | 88 |
| V. Morgridge Klaus | 92 |
| THE LITTLE CASTAWAYS | 99 |
| A FAERY SURPRISE PARTY | 133 |
| THE ROCK ELEPHANT | 149 |
| THE OLD BROWN COAT | |
| I. The Gift | 175 |
| II. The Sacrifice | 199 |
| NEW YEAR'S DAY IN THE GARDEN | 219 |
THE THREE WISHES
BESSIE'S STORY
Wish the First.—Under the Sea.
ITTLE Effie Gilder's porridge did taste good! and so it ought; for beside that Mother Gilder made it, and Mother Gilder's porridge was always just right, Effie was eating it on her seat upon the sea-shore in front of her father's house. The sun was just going down and the tide was rising, so that the little waves came tumbling up on the beach, as if they were racing, each one falling headlong on the sand in the scramble to get there first; and then slipping back again, there would be left a long streak of white foam just out of reach of Effie. She was sitting on what she called her chair, but it was a chair without legs or back or arms—only a great flat stone, where she used to come every sunshiny afternoon and eat her bowl of porridge.
It was smoking-hot—that porridge! and she was eating away with a great relish, holding the bowl in her lap and drumming upon it with her drumstick of a spoon. I wish you could have seen her as she sat there, with her hat falling off and the sun touching her hair and turning the rich auburn into a golden colour. But somebody did see her; for just before the sun went down, Effie spied an old man coming along the beach to the place where she sat. "That must be Uncle Ralph," thought she, "coming home from fishing." "No," she said; as he came