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قراءة كتاب The Magic Nuts
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THE MAGIC NUTS
THE MAGIC NUTS
BY
MRS. MOLESWORTH
AUTHOR OF 'CARROTS,' 'CUCKOO CLOCK,' 'TELL ME A STORY,' ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY ROSIE M. M. PITMAN
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1898
In childhood, when with eager eyes
The season-measured years I viewed,
All garbed in fairy guise.
Cardinal Newman.
I DEDICATE THIS LITTLE STORY
TO MY GRAND-DAUGHTER
VIOLET SARA MOLESWORTH
19 Sumner Place, S.W.,
February 1898.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | Night and Morning |
| CHAPTER II | Apples and Nuts |
| CHAPTER III | It is Hildegarde |
| CHAPTER IV | On the Way |
| CHAPTER V | 'What's o'Clock?' |
| CHAPTER VI | Gnomeland |
| CHAPTER VII | A Collation under Difficulties |
| CHAPTER VIII | Tree-Top Land |
| CHAPTER IX | A Concert |
| CHAPTER X | The Blue-Silk Room |
| CHAPTER XI | 'The Unselfish Mermaid' |
| CHAPTER XII | 'The Unselfish Mermaid' (continued) |
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I
NIGHT AND MORNING
The way was long.
Lay of the Last Minstrel.
Little Leonore pressed her face against the window of the railway carriage and tried hard to see out. But it was no use. It all looked so dark and black, all the darker and blacker for the glimmer of the rain-drops trickling down thickly outside, and reflecting the feeble light of the lamp in the roof of the compartment.
Leonore sighed deeply. She was very tired, more tired than she knew, for she did not feel sleepy, or as if she would give anything to be undressed and go to bed. On the contrary, she wished with all her heart that it was daylight, and that it would leave off raining, and that she could get out of the stuffy