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diff --git a/old/66092-0.txt b/old/66092-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index d91078e..0000000 --- a/old/66092-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1750 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Gallery of Children, by A. A. Milne - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: A Gallery of Children - -Author: A. A. Milne - -Illustrator: Henriette Willebeek Le Mair - -Release Date: August 20, 2021 [eBook #66092] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Tim Lindell, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was - produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital - Library.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A GALLERY OF CHILDREN *** - - - - - _A_ GALLERY _of_ - CHILDREN - - _By_ - A. A. MILNE - - _Illustrations by_ - SAIDA - (H. WILLEBEEK LE MAIR) - - [Illustration] - - PHILADELPHIA - DAVID MCKAY COMPANY - WASHINGTON SQUARE - - - - - LIST OF COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS - - - FACING - PAGE - -The Princess and the Apple-Tree 10 - -Sparrow Tree Square 18 - -The Twins 26 - -Miss Waterlow in Bed 34 - -Sand Babies 42 - -Poor Anne 50 - -A Voyage to India 58 - -Barbara’s Birthday 66 - -The Baby Show 74 - -The Magic Hill 84 - -The Three Daughters of M. Dupont 92 - -Castles by the Sea 100 - - - - - CONTENTS - - - PAGE - -The Princess and the Apple-Tree 11 - -Sparrow Tree Square 19 - -The Twins 27 - -Miss Waterlow in Bed 35 - -Sand Babies 43 - -Poor Anne 51 - -A Voyage to India 59 - -Barbara’s Birthday 67 - -The Baby Show 75 - -The Magic Hill 85 - -The Three Daughters of M. Dupont 93 - -Castles by the Sea 101 - - - - -THE PRINCESS AND THE APPLE-TREE - -[Illustration: The Princess and the Apple-Tree] - - -Once upon a time there was a beautiful Princess, who loved all lovely -things, and most she loved the flowers and the blossoming trees in her -father’s garden. Now there was a humble man called Silvio, whose -business it was to tend the flowers and the trees in the King’s garden, -and to him also they were a never-ending happiness, because of their -beauty. So it was that their love for lovely things drew them together, -and Silvio loved the Princess, and sometimes they walked hand-in-hand -together. - -But the King was angry, for it was in his mind that the Princess should -marry a greater man than this; and he came upon Silvio in the garden, -and commanded him to leave that country, and never to be found there -again. And Silvio said, “How can I leave the garden which I love?” -Whereupon the King laughed, and said, “Stay, then,” and touched him -with the wand which he carried ... and in a moment there was no Silvio -there, but only another apple-tree in the garden. For the King of that -country was a great magician, and many were afraid of him. - -The days went by, and still the Princess sought Silvio in the garden, -but he did not come. So she went to her father, the King, and asked of -him. And the King laughed, and said, “He was pruning an apple-tree. I -did not like the way he pruned it. He will never come back.” Then the -Princess said, “Which was the tree he was pruning?” And the King led her -to the window, and showed her the tree. And the Princess was astonished, -for she did not know that there had been an apple-tree there. And, when -she was alone, she went to the apple-tree, saying, “It is the last thing -which he touched;” so she touched it with her hand. And the apple-tree -trembled gently, and the blossom fell upon her head. So it was on the -next day, and the next.... - -And Summer came, but Silvio did not come, and Autumn came, and still she -thought of Silvio. One day, while she was beneath the apple-tree, she -cried out suddenly, “O Silvio, let me not forget you!”--and the tree -shook, and an apple fell into her lap. The Princess took a little silver -knife, and peeled the apple, so that the peel was unbroken, and she -threw the peel over her shoulder, saying, “See whom I love!” And she -looked behind her, and there was the letter “S” upon the ground. So it -was upon the next day and the next. And upon the fourth day she took an -apple from another tree, and the peel broke beneath her knife; and she -picked a second apple, and the peel fell in this shape or that; -whereupon she went quickly back to her own tree. And always an apple -fell into her lap, and always it told her that it was Silvio whom she -loved. - -There came a day when there was only one apple upon the tree. Then was -she afraid, for she said, “How shall I know whom I love when the tree is -empty?” So she went near to it. Very close, then, she felt to Silvio, -and he to her; and suddenly she stretched out her arms, and said, -“Apple-tree, apple-tree, you have seen whom it is that I love. Send him -back to me!” And she put her arms round the tree, and clung to it, -crying, “Comfort me!” And it moved within her arms. Whereupon she was -frightened, and drew her arms away, putting her hands before her eyes -... and when she opened her eyes, there was Silvio waiting for her, a -golden apple in his hand. But there was no apple-tree. - -Then Silvio said to the Princess, “Whom is it that you love?” And she -said, “Silvio.” So they kissed each other. And the King, seeing them -from his window, said, “Let him marry her, for he is a greater man than -I.” So they were married, and lived happily ever afterwards, walking in -the garden together, hand-in-hand. - - * * * * * - -This is the story which the eldest Vanderdecken girl read aloud -underneath the Umbrella Tree. And they said, “Now read us another.” But -Diana, who had never had a story read to her before, said, “I’m glad -they were together again.” - - - - -SPARROW TREE SQUARE - -[Illustration: Sparrow Tree Square] - - -We will take the lady in green first. Her name is Diana Fitzpatrick -Mauleverer James. She is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Fitzpatrick -Mauleverer James, who live at Number 27. Mrs. F. M. James wanted a boy, -so that he could support them in their old age; but Mr. F. M. James said -loftily: “No F. M. James, my dear, was ever any good at supporting. -Where the F. M. Jameses shine is at being supported. Let it be a girl, -and let her marry some very rich man when she grows up. It shall be -_his_ proud privilege to tend the last of the F. M. James’s in their -middle-age.” So it was a girl. - -Mrs. F. M. James was very fond of Diana, but she was fond of Mr. F. M. -James, too, and a time came when she found that she couldn’t look after -both of them; for it would happen sometimes that, when Diana wanted to -play trains, Mr. F. M. James didn’t, or that when Mr. F. M. James did, -then Diana had thought of some other game. So one day she said: - -“I think, dear, we had better get Diana a nurse, and then I can devote -myself entirely to you.” - -“Certainly, my love, you should devote yourself entirely to me,” said -Mr. F. M. James, “but I cannot allow a common nurse to look after Diana -Fitzpatrick Mauleverer. The F. M. James’s have their pride.” - -“Then who is to look after her?” asked Diana’s Mother. - -“She must look after herself.” - -So from that day Diana looked after herself. She woke herself in the -morning, dressed herself, took herself out for a walk, told herself to -get-on-with-her-dinner-there-was-a-darling, sang herself to sleep in the -afternoon, gave herself tea, brushed her hair and took herself -downstairs to her Father and Mother, took herself back again if they -were out, gave herself a bath, read to herself while she had her supper, -and at the end of the day said good-night to herself and left herself in -bed. When she was there, she made up little rhymes for herself, before -going to sleep. One of them went like this: - - Diana Fitzpatrick Mauleverer James - Was lucky to have the most beautiful names. - How awful for Fathers and Mothers to call - Their children Jemima!--or nothing at all! - But _hers_ were much wiser and kinder and cleverer, - They called her Diana Fitzpatrick Mauleverer James. - -I am telling you all this because I want you to understand how proud she -felt on that first morning when she took herself to Sparrow Tree Square -to feed the birds. There were other children there, but they had nurses -with them. Sometimes the children ran away and pretended they didn’t -belong to the nurses and sometimes the nurses lagged behind and -pretended they didn’t belong to the children, but Diana Fitzpatrick -Mauleverer James knew! She was the only entirely-all-by-herself person -there. And she had given herself a bag full of bread-crusts to feed the -sparrows with, and she had let herself wear the green coat with fur -trimmings, and she was utterly and entirely happy. She nodded to William -and Wilhelmina Good, who were walking up and down in a very correct way, -William in green, too, and Wilhelmina, who had been growing rather -quickly lately, in blue. She laughed like anything at a little boy who -was trying to count the sparrows, and kept making it thirty instead of -thirty-one, because one of them hid between his legs. How angry he was -because he couldn’t make it thirty-one! Silly little boy! She bowed -politely to the Vanderdecken girls--over-dressed as usual--and agreed -with them that it was a fine morning. They were feeding the sparrows, -too, but they just had little bits of bread which their nurses gave them -out of their pockets. Not like Diana, who had her crusts in a real -grown-up bag! - -Now then! - -The sparrows flew round Diana Fitzpatrick Mauleverer James, and sat -waiting for her. - -“All right, darlings,” she said as she opened her bag. - -Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear! - -She had forgotten to put the bread-crusts in! - - - - -THE TWINS - -[Illustration: The Twins] - - -They are twins, and their names are William and Wilhelmina Good. When -Mr. Good was told about them, he lit a cigar, and said, “I shall call -the boy William--after myself;” and then he thought for a long time, and -said, “And I shall call the girl Wilhelmina--after her brother.” He -threw his cigar away, and went and told Mrs. Good, who had wanted to -call them John and Jane. Mrs. Good said, “Very well, dear, but I don’t -like the name of William, and I shall call my dear little boy Billy for -short.” And Mr. Good said, “Certainly, my love, but if it comes to that, -I don’t much care about the name of Wilhelmina, not for shouting up the -stairs with, so my dear little girl had better be called Billy, too.” -Mrs. Good said, “Very well, dear, but won’t it be rather confusing?” And -Mr. Good said, “No, dear, not to people of any intelligence;” and he -took out his watch at the end of its chain, and swung it round and -round and round, and looked at it, and said, “My watch is a fortnight -fast,” and put it back in his pocket, and returned to his library. - -The twins grew up, and they were so like each other that nobody knew -which was which. Of course they ought to have had their names on their -vests--_William Good_, _Wilhelmina Good_--but Nurse made a mistake about -this. She bought the tape and marking ink, and she wrote the names, and -she stitched them on; and, when all the vests were marked, she showed -them proudly to Mrs. Good. And then it was discovered that by an -accident she had marked them all “_Billy Good_.” When Mr. Good was told -about this, he lit a cigar, and said, “Have people no intelligence at -all? Next year, when they have grown out of these vests, I will mark the -new ones myself.” So next year he marked them all, in very neat -printing, _W. Good_. - -Luckily by this time Wilhelmina’s hair had begun to curl. Every night -Nurse spent ten minutes with a wet comb, combing it round her finger. -William’s hair curled naturally, too, but not so naturally as this, and -in a little while you could tell at once which was Wilhelmina and which -wasn’t. If you will look at the picture, you will see how right I am -about this. Mr. Good always says that he and I are the only people of -any _real_ intelligence left in the world ... and that I am not what I -was. However, I do my best; and I know I am right about this. The one -with the curly hair is Wilhelmina. - -One night when they were fast-asleep-like-good-children, Wilhelmina -said: - -“I’m very clever, I can hear in the dark I’m so clever.” - -“I’m as clever as anything,” said William. “I’m too clever.” - -“I can hear snails breathing,” said Wilhelmina. - -“I can hear snails not breathing,” said William. - -Wilhelmina thought again. - -“I can hear somebody out of the window calling Billy,” she said. - -“I told him to do it,” said William. - -“I’m going to see what he wants,” said Wilhelmina.... - -“Yes, I am,” said Wilhelmina.... - -“Shall I?” said Wilhelmina.... - -“I think he meant _you_,” said Wilhelmina. - -“He meant you,” said William. “He says it in a different sort of voice -when he means me.” - -“You’re afraid to go,” said Wilhelmina. - -“I’m not afraid, but he gets very angry when the wrong person goes.” - -“He has a long red cap with a tassel on it,” said Wilhelmina. - -“He has a long beard and green stockings,” said William. - -“I’m going to see him,” said Wilhelmina firmly. - -“So am I going to see him.” - -“I’ll go if you’ll go.” - -“I’ll go if you’ll go.” - -“Let’s both go.” - -“Yes, let’s both go.” - -Very unwillingly they got out of bed, and stood, hand in hand, on the -nursery floor. - -“I can’t hear him now,” said Wilhelmina hopefully. - -“Nor can I can’t hear him,” said William at once. - -“Yes, I can,” said Wilhelmina unexpectedly, “because I’m so clever I -hear so well.” - -“So can I,” said William quickly. - -They moved a little closer to the window. - -“Does he get _very_ angry if it’s the wrong person?” asked Wilhelmina. - -“He doesn’t know, because his face is turned the wrong way round, so -he’s never quite sure.” - -“I knew his face was the wrong way round,” said Wilhelmina hurriedly, -“but I thought perhaps he had an Ooglie man with him to tell him.” - -William wondered anxiously what an Ooglie man was. So did Wilhelmina. - -“No,” said William. “He hasn’t. Not this one.” - -“I’m not afraid,” said both together. Tremblingly they pushed open the -window, and leant out.... - - - - -MISS WATERLOW IN BED - -[Illustration: Miss Waterlow in Bed] - - -This is Miss Waterlow in bed. - -Mrs. Waterlow is kissing her good-night, and saying: - -“God bless you and keep you, my darling darlingest, my sweetheart, my -little baby one.” - -Miss Waterlow gives a little far-away smile. She is thinking: - -“I know a funny thing to think when I’m alone.” - -Mrs. Waterlow is looking at her as if she could never stop looking, and -saying: - -“Thank you, and thank you, God, for giving me my darling darlingest. You -do understand, don’t you, that it doesn’t matter what happens to _me_, -but oh! don’t let anything terrible happen to _her_!” - -Miss Waterlow is thinking: - -“I shall pretend I’m big as the moon, and nobody can catch me I’m so -big. Isn’t that funny?” - -“Good-night, beloved. Sleep well, my darling darlingest.” - -Miss Waterlow is remembering something ... something very beautiful ... -but it all happened so long ago that she has forgotten the beginning of -it before she remembers the end. - -“Oh, my lovely, when you look like that you make me want to cry. What -are you thinking of, darlingest?” - -Miss Waterlow won’t tell. - -Yet perhaps for a moment Mrs. Waterlow has been there, too. - -“God bless you, my lovely,” she says, and puts out the light. - -Miss Waterlow is alone. - - * * * * * - -Miss Waterlow at this time was one. It is a tremendous age to be, and -often she would lie on her back and laugh to think of all the babies who -were None. When she was six months old, Mr. Waterlow, who was a poet, -wrote some verses about her and he slipped them proudly into Mrs. -Waterlow’s hand one evening. Owing to a misunderstanding, they were used -to wedge the nursery window, which rattled at night; and though they -wedged very delightfully for some time, Mr. Waterlow couldn’t help -feeling a little disappointed. Mrs. Waterlow was, of course, as sorry as -she could be when she understood what had happened, but it was then too -late. As Mr. Waterlow said: Once you have bent a piece of poetry, it is -never quite the same again. Fortunately for all of us, two lines at the -end, torn off so as to make the wedge the right thickness, have -survived. They go like this: - -“She never walks, and she never speaks-- -And we’ve had her for _weeks_ and _weeks_ and _weeks_!” - -Now the truth was that Miss Waterlow could speak if she wanted to, but -she had decided to wait until she was quarter-past-one. The reason was -that she had such lovely things to remember, _if only she could remember -them_. You can’t talk _and_ think. For a year and a quarter she would -just lie on her back and remember ... and then when she had it all quite -clear in her mind, she would tell them all about it. But nobody can -speak without practice. So every night, as soon as she was alone, she -practised. - -She practised now. - -“Teddy!” she called. - -Down on the floor, at the foot of her bed, Teddy-bear, whose head was -nodding on his chest, woke up with a start. - -“What is it?” he grumbled. - -“Are you asleep, Teddy?” - -“I are and I aren’t,” said Teddy. - -“I forght I were, and I weren’t,” said Miss Waterlow. - -“Well, well, what is it?” - -“What’s a word for a lovely--a lovely--_you_ know what I mean--and all -of a sudden--only you don’t because--what _is_ the word, Teddy?” - -“Condensedmilk,” said Teddy. - -“I don’t _fink_ it is,” said Miss Waterlow. - -“As near as you can get nowadays.” - -Miss Waterlow sighed. She never seemed to get very near. - -“Perhaps I shall never tell them,” said Miss Waterlow sadly. “Perhaps -they don’t have the word.” - -“Perhaps they don’t,” said Teddy. “It’s a funny thing about them,” he -went on, waking up slightly, “what a few words they _have_ got. Take -‘condensedmilk’ as an example. It does, but it isn’t _really_, if you -see what I mean. That’s why I never talk to ’em now. They don’t get any -_richness_ into their words--they don’t get any what I call flavour. -There’s no _bite_.” - -“I want a word--” - -“Better go to sleep,” said Teddy, his head nodding suddenly again. - -“Shan’t I ever be able to tell them?” asked Miss Waterlow wistfully. - -“Never,” said Teddy sleepily. “They’ve got the wrong words.” - -Miss Waterlow lay there, wrapt in drowsy and enchanted memories of that -golden land to which she could never quite return. She would tell them -all about it some day ... but not now ... not now ... not now.... - -She gave a little sigh, and was asleep. - - - - -SAND BABIES - -[Illustration: Sand Babies] - - -They had never been to the seaside before, so you can imagine how -pleased they were when Mr. Merryweather said, “I think we will go to the -sea this summer, it will do the children good.” - -They all began to jump about and get very excited, all except John. John -had heard about the sea, but he didn’t quite believe it. So he said to -his Father: - -“When you go to the theathide, do you weally _thee_ the thea?” - -All the other children laughed, and Mary the eldest, who knew -everything, said, “Silly, of _course_ you do!” - -John kept his eyes on his Father, and said, “Do you weally?” And his -Father said, “Yes, old boy, you do.” Then John gave a great sigh of -happiness and said, “I fort perhaps you did.” And he walked round and -round the garden, singing, “I’m going to thee the thea!” - -Mary went off with her Mother to talk about what sort of clothes they -would all want. Mary was ten; and when you are ten and the eldest, -almost everything depends upon you. John was three and the youngest, and -sometimes Mary was not quite sure whether she was John’s mother or not. -If you could have two mothers, then she was one of them. - -“The great question,” said Mr. Merryweather next day, “is, where shall -we go?” - -John looked at him as if he could hardly believe. “I _fort_ we were -going to the thea,” he said, almost crying. - -“Silly, of course we are,” said Mary. “But there are lots of places by -the sea. Let’s go to a place where there are heaps of lovely shells.” - -“And sand,” said Margaret. - -“And rocks,” said Joan. “And pools.” - -“SHELLS--SAND--ROCKS--POOLS,” wrote Mr. Merryweather on his cuff. -“Anything else?” - -John tried to speak once or twice, but nothing happened. - -“Yes, darling?” said his Mother. - -“Thea,” said John faintly. - -“AND SEA,” wrote Mr. Merryweather. “And what do _you_ want, Stephen?” - -Stephen was four. He thought a good deal, but never said anything, so if -it hadn’t been for Joan, nobody would ever have known what he wanted. - -“Stephen wants the same as me, don’t you, Stephen?” said Joan quickly. - -Stephen nodded. He was thinking of something else. - -On the Monday they all went off. As soon as they got out at the station, -Mr. Merryweather said, “I can smell the sea,” and Mary said, “So can I,” -but she couldn’t really. John very nearly cried again, because he -thought the sea was something you saw, not just something you smelt, but -Mary told him that to-morrow after breakfast he would really _see_ it, -Wouldn’t he, Mother? And Mrs. Merryweather said, Yes, it was too late -now; better wait till to-morrow. - -So they waited till to-morrow. As soon as they had finished breakfast, -and they were all too excited to eat much (except Stephen, who could -think just as well, whether he was eating or whether he wasn’t), Mary -took them out. Mr. Merryweather stayed behind to read his paper, and -Mrs. Merryweather stayed behind to see about dinner, because they knew -they could trust Mary. Joan and Stephen walked in front, Joan chattering -to Stephen, and Stephen thinking; then came Margaret, talking eagerly -over her shoulder to Mary; and then came Mary holding John’s hand, and -saying, “We’re nearly there, dear.” - -Suddenly they turned the corner, and there they were. - -Mary said proudly: “There, darling, _there’s_ the sea.” - -Margaret said: “Isn’t it _lovely_?” - -Joan said: “Oh, _look_, Stephen!” - -Stephen said nothing, of course. - -And John opened his mouth to say something, turned very red, and burst -into tears. - -They were all very sorry for John--except Stephen, who was thinking of -something else. The worst of it was that none of them knew what was the -matter with him. Had he had too much breakfast? Or too little? Was he -tired? Would he like Margaret to take him back? John couldn’t tell them. -He didn’t know. - -“What would you like to do, darling?” said Mary. “Shall we pick some -lovely shells?” - -John sniffed and nodded. - -They went on to the beach. There were many other children there, but -they were much too happy to take any notice of the Merryweather family. - -“Now,” said Mary, “let’s see who can find the prettiest shell. Oh, look -at _this_ one!” - -“Oh, and _this_ one, Mary!” said Margaret. - -“Well put them in my bag,” said Mary. “Would you like to hold the bag, -darling?” - -“Yeth,” said John meekly. Afraid to look at it again, he stood with his -back to the sea, and dropped the shells into the bag as they were given -to him. Why had the sea made him cry like that? He didn’t know. Perhaps -Stephen.... - -He looked at Stephen. - -No, it was no good asking Stephen. - - - - -POOR ANNE - -[Illustration: Poor Anne] - - -She was christened Anne Lavender, so that her full name was Anne -Lavender Lavender. This was an idea of Mr. Lavender’s. He was very proud -of his family, and it distressed him to think that when his daughter, -the beautiful Miss Lavender, married, her name might be something quite -ugly, like Winks. - -“Whereas,” he explained to Anne’s Mamma, “if we call her Anne Lavender -Lavender, her name, when she marries this man Winks, will be Anne -Lavender-Winks, and people will know at once that she is one of us.” - -“They will know that anyhow,” said Mrs. Lavender, bending over her baby. -“She is just like her old Daddy, aren’t you, darling?” - -Anne, being then about none, did not reply. - -“She has my hair, certainly,” said Mr. Lavender, and he stroked his -raven locks proudly. - -He was very dark, and Mrs. Lavender was very fair, and they had often -wondered which of them Anne would be like. He used to say “I do hope she -will be like _you_, darling,” and she would say, “I would rather she -were like _you_, dearest,” and he would say, “Well, well, we shall see.” -And now she was dark. She was dark, like him; and she was called Anne -Lavender Lavender, which was his own idea; and he felt very happy about -it all. - -And then one day a surprising thing happened. All her dark hair fell -off, and she became as fair as fair--just like her Mamma. - -“What a pity!” said Mrs. Lavender, “I did want her to be like you.” - -“She’s much prettier like you,” said Mr. Lavender gallantly, though -secretly he was a little hurt. - -But he soon got over it. By the time Anne was one and a bit, he had -decided that the only color for very small fat girls was fair. He used -to gaze at her sometimes, and say to himself, “I shan’t let her marry -that fellow Winks now, she’s much too good for him. She’s lovely--and -just like her Mother.” - -And then another very surprising thing happened. Her hair suddenly -became red. Not golden-red or chestnut-red, but really-carrotty-red. -Red! And nobody in Mr. Lavender’s family or Mrs. Lavender’s family had -ever had red hair before! - -It was then that one or two people began calling her Poor Anne. They -didn’t all do it at first--just one or two of them. “What a pity about -Poor Anne,” they said. “She used to have such lovely flaxen hair.” And -when they were talking about Christmas presents, they used to say, “And, -of course, there’s Poor Anne; we mustn’t forget _her_.” - -Mr. Lavender was terribly upset about it all. He wrote to the editors of -several papers, and asked them to say whether, if a child’s hair had -once _not_ been red, and then _was_ red, whether it would ever _not_ be -red again, if it once _hadn’t_ been. Some of them didn’t answer, and -some said that Time Would Show, and two of them said that Red Hair was -Very Becoming. But, of course, that wasn’t what Mr. Lavender wanted to -know. - -Mrs. Lavender didn’t mind so much. She had just decided to have another -baby called David Lavender. - -David was fair. Fairer than Anne had ever been, fairer than his Mother -had ever been. All his aunts came and looked at him, and they said to -each other, “Isn’t his hair lovely?” And then they _all_ said to each -other, “What a pity about Poor Anne!” - -Poor Anne didn’t mind. She was much too happy taking care of her little -brother. You see, she knew why her own hair had gone red. It was because -she had caught that terrible cold when she was two, through getting her -feet wet. So it was _most important_ that David should never, never -catch cold, because a girl with carrotty hair was just Poor Anne, but a -boy with carrotty hair was Oh-_poor_-David. And her Father would be so -miserable that he wouldn’t ever write to the papers again, and it would -be all her fault. - -So she did all she possibly could to keep David’s hair the right color, -and she did it so well that one day Mr. Lavender said: - -“Poor Anne. She won’t be beautiful, but she’ll be very useful, and I -think I shall let her marry the Winks fellow after all.” - -And then he murmured to himself, “Anne Lavender-Winks. How _right_ I was -about that!” - - - - -A VOYAGE TO INDIA - -[Illustration: A Voyage to India] - - -Raining, still raining! Oh dear, oh dear! But what, you say to yourself, -is a little rain? Jane Ann must be patient. She must stay at home and -play with her delightful toys this afternoon, and then perhaps to-morrow -morning the sun will come out, and she will be able to run about in the -fields again. After all, it isn’t every little girl who has a rabbit, -and a horse and cart, and an india-rubber ball to play with. Come, come, -Jane Ann! - -How little you understand! - -To-day was the day. To-morrow will be too late. Perhaps even now if it -cleared up--but each time that she has said this, down has come another -cloud. She tried shutting her eyes; she did try that. She tried shutting -her eyes and saying, “One, two, three, four--I’ll count twenty and then -I’ll open them, and please, will you let the rain stop by then, please, -because it’s too terribly important, you know why.” Yes, she counted -twenty; quickly up to twelve, and then more slowly to fifteen, and then -sixteen ... seventeen ... eighteen ... nineteen ... and then, so slowly -that it wasn’t really fair, but she wanted to make it easier for God, -twe ... twe ... twe ... TWENTY! But it went on raining. She tried -holding her breath; she said that if she held her breath a very long -time, longer than anyone in the whole world had ever held it before, -then when she stopped holding it, it would stop raining. Wouldn’t it? -But it didn’t. So she stood at the window and watched the raindrops -sliding down the pane; and she said--and she _knew_ this would do -it--that if _this_ raindrop got to the bottom of the pane before the -other, then it would stop raining, but that if the other one did, then -it wouldn’t stop ... and when they were half-way down, she said, No, it -was the other way about, and if this one got there _last_, then.... But -still it went on raining. - -You see, it was the day she was going to India. Her Father and Mother -lived in India, and she remembered them quite well. At first she -remembered they were black, because all Indians were black, and then -when Aunt Mary told her they were white, she remembered how white they -were. She was to live with Aunt Mary until they came home, which was -next year, and sometimes she got tired of waiting. - -“Couldn’t they come to-morrow?” she asked. - -“Not to-morrow,” said Aunt Mary, “because they are very busy, but it -won’t be long now.” - -Then Jane Ann had her lovely idea. If they were too busy to come to her, -she would go to them. - -She counted up all her money, and thought it would be just enough, if -she walked all the way. And every day that week, when she went out with -her Nurse, she bought something nourishing, like buns or chocolates, and -put them in her special box. And every evening she looked inside the -box, and then shut her eyes and thought very hard of her Father and -Mother, and didn’t eat any of it. And when the box was full, it was -Friday night, and to-morrow was the day. - -She said good-bye to Rabbit that night. They all wanted to come, but -Rabbit most. Rabbit had a special pink ribbon round his neck to come by, -and he had never been to India before, so he was terribly excited. But -Jane Ann said, No, he couldn’t, because India was full of fierce tigers, -and tigers ate rabbits. Rabbit saw that it wouldn’t do to be eaten by a -tiger, but he thought he could dodge them. He was very disappointed -when Jane Ann told him that even dodgy rabbits got eaten by tigers in -India. “Even _very_ dodgy rabbits?” he asked wistfully. “Yes,” said Jane -Ann, “even _very_ dodgy rabbits.” But she felt so sorry for him when she -said this that she took off his pink ribbon and hid it away in a drawer, -in case she felt she _couldn’t_ leave him behind in the morning. - -They were all to see her off. She arranged them in the window--Horse and -Cart, Horse, Ball and Rabbit--so that she would be able to wave to them -for quite a long way. Of course, after you had gone a long way you had -to turn to the right, and then you wouldn’t see them any more. That was -when she would first open her box, because she would be feeling so -lonely. It was wonderful how unlonely chocolate made you. - -Looking out of the window next morning, Rabbit saw that it was raining. - -“Perhaps she won’t go now,” he said, and he was very excited. - -After breakfast Jane Ann looked out of the window, too. - -“It will stop soon,” she said cheerfully. - -And she stood there waiting for it to stop.... - - - - -BARBARA’S BIRTHDAY - -[Illustration: Barbara’s Birthday] - - -They are being photographed. Names, reading from left to right: - -Susan, Henry Dog, Barbara, Mrs. Perkins, Helen. - -Of course, they are not really being photographed, but Helen said, -“Let’s pretend that we are, and that it’s going to be in the papers -to-morrow.” So she put one hand on Mrs. Perkins, to show how fond she -was of the cat, and took the other one off the table, to show how -well-brought-up she was, and said “Go!” - -Well, you see what happened. Susan and Barbara weren’t ready for it. -They were both eating, and both had their elbows on the table. It would -be a terrible thing if the photograph came out in the paper like that. -Couldn’t the man take another one? - -Helen said, No, it was the last one he had. He had been taking -photographs all the day of “Scenes in the Village on the Occasion of -Miss Barbara’s Sixth Birthday” and he only had two left when he came to -the house. One was “A Corner of the Stables Taken from the North Side of -the Lake,” and the other was “Miss Barbara Entertains a Few Friends to -Tea, reading from left to right.” - -Barbara said, “Oh!” - -Susan said, “Well, I don’t mind, because it’s not my birthday.” - -Helen said, “It was the man’s fault for taking all those ones in the -village.” - -Susan said, “_My_ birthday’s on April the Fifteenth and I’m five and -Henry’s three and his birthday’s the same day as mine, isn’t that -funny?” - -And Barbara said, “Well, I know I’m six.” - -Then they all began to eat again. - -But if Barbara was six, where was the big birthday-cake with six -candles on it? Ah! - -You see, Barbara lived in a big town, and the Doctor looked at her one -day and said “H’m!” Then he asked her to put out her tongue, and when he -saw it, he said, “Tut-tut-tut!” Then he put his fingers on her wrist and -looked at his watch, and the watch was even worse than the tongue, for -he said, “Come, come, this won’t do.” And just when Barbara was going to -say, “Would you like to try _my_ watch?” the Doctor turned to Barbara’s -Father and Mother and said, “She wants a change.” So it was decided that -on Monday Barbara should take her Nurse into the country for a Change. - -“But what about my birthday?” said Barbara. “Will I be at home for my -birthday?” - -Barbara’s Father brought out his Pocket Diary, and it was found that -she couldn’t get home again until two days after her birthday. - -“Never mind,” said her Mother; “you can have your birthday three days -later this year.” - -“And a very extra special one to make up,” said her Father. - -So that was that, and Barbara didn’t really mind a bit, because she -loved being in the country, and she had her birthday to look forward to -when she got home again. - -Now there was a family living in the village called--I forget the name, -and the family was Mr. and Mrs. Somebody, Helen Somebody, Susan -Somebody, Henry Dog and Mrs. Perkins. Barbara got very friendly with -them, and one day Helen and Susan were coming to tea with her, because -it was her last day but one. - -“I wish you could stay to April the Fifteenth,” said Susan, “because -it’s my birthday and I’m five, and Henry’s three, isn’t it funny?” - -“I’m six as soon as I get back,” said Barbara. “I would have been six -to-day, if I had been well.” - -“Do you mean it’s your birthday?” said Helen excitedly. - -Barbara explained how, because of having a Change, she wasn’t being six -till three days later this year. - -“But you _are_ six, you _are_ six,” said Helen, jumping up and down. -“Isn’t she, Susan?” - -Susan said: “I’m five on April the--” - -“Of _course_ you’re six, so we must make it a birthday party. And please -will you invite Mr. Henry Dog and Mrs. Perkins as well as us, so as to -make it a big party?” - -Barbara promised; and when her guests arrived, Helen had brought some -flowers to make the party look more exciting. She had also made up a -rhyme to say; at least, she and her Father had made it up between them, -and Helen said it. - - _Barbara is six to-day,_ - _Hooray, hooray, hooray, hooray!_ - -Then they all had tea. - -And Helen and Susan and Henry Dog and Mrs. Perkins thought it was a -lovely tea. But all the time Barbara was saying to herself, “Only three -more days, and then I shall have my _real_ birthday.” - - - - -THE BABY SHOW - -[Illustration: The Baby Show] - - -Mr. Theophilus Banks was a very important man. His friends called him -Theo. I forget what he did exactly, but it was very important, and if he -didn’t do it, then where should we all be? I don’t know. Everything -depended on Mr. Banks. - -He had three children. The first was a girl, and she was called Jessica -Banks after her Mother. The next was a boy, and he was called Theophilus -Banks, after his Father, Theophilus Banks. Some people thought it would -be rather confusing having two Theophiluses Bankses in the family, but -Mr. Banks thought not. He said that for many years the child would be -Master Banks, and if they liked they could call him Phil for short; and -that by the time he was old enough to be Mr. Banks, his Father would be -Judge Banks or Professor Banks, or Colonel Banks or President Banks--he -hadn’t quite decided yet. So the baby was called Phil for short. And -then, later on, there was a third child, and as Mr. Banks couldn’t very -well call him Theophilus, too, he decided to keep as much of the name in -the family as was possible. So the Baby was called Theodore, or Toddy -for short. - -Mr. Banks played golf. He was a very active man, and he played more golf -in an afternoon than anybody else at his club. Sometimes the friends he -was playing with would stop for tea after hitting the ball only -seventy-five times, but Mr. Banks would never stop until he had hit it a -hundred and twenty times. He was that sort of man. You would have -thought that they would have given him a prize for being so active, but -they didn’t. They always gave it to the others. Almost everybody in the -club was given a little silver cup except Mr. Banks. He used to feel -very unhappy about it. Whenever he and Mrs. Banks went out to dinner -with their friends, they would always see a silver cup on the table, and -Mr. Binks (if that was the name of the friend) would explain to Mr. -Banks how he had won the cup last Saturday, and Mrs. Binks would explain -to Mrs. Banks how her husband had won it. And Mr. and Mrs. Banks would -go home feeling very disheartened about it. - -One day Mrs. Banks read in the paper that there was going to be a Baby -Show in the town. She told Jessica, and Jessica said at once, “Oh, let’s -put Toddy in! What fun!” - -“Put Toddy in, put Toddy in,” cried Phil, thinking it was some sort of -pond, and how funny Toddy would look in it. - -“Oh, do let’s,” said Jessica, “and then if he won, Father would have a -silver cup like the others.” - -Mrs. Banks suddenly remembered that it was Father’s birthday next week. -He had everything he wanted except a silver cup. How happy he would be -if he could win one just in time for his birthday! - -So Master Theodore Banks was entered for the Baby Show. Of course it was -to be a secret from Mr. Banks, so every day when he was at the office -where everything depended on him, the others used to get together and -wonder how they could improve Toddy, so as to make sure that he would -win the prize. - -Mrs. Banks thought that he was perfect as he was. - -Jessica thought that he would have been perfect if his hair had been a -little more curly. - -Phil thought that if he was put in a pond and made to swim, he would be -much stronger. _And_ perfecter. - -So Jessica brushed and brushed and brushed his hair every day; and every -day Phil tried to get hold of him so as to strengthen him. But Mrs. -Banks kept him on the chest of drawers, so that Jessica could brush his -hair and Phil couldn’t quite reach him, and she thought to herself, “I -believe he _will_ win the prize after all.” And every day when Mr. Banks -came home from golf, she looked at him to see if he had won a silver -cup; but he hadn’t. - -Mr. Banks hadn’t been thinking much about his birthday. He knew he was -35 or 107 or something, and he knew it was this week, but nobody was -more surprised than he when he came down to breakfast on Thursday, and -found a beautiful parcel on his plate. You can guess how excited he -was. - -“Well, well, well, what can this be?” he said, and Phil nudged Jessica, -and Jessica smiled at her Mother, and Phil jumped about and said, “Open -it! Open it!” So Mr. Banks opened it. - -“Well, well, well!” he said. - -It was a silver cup. - -“But what--?” he said. - -Then he turned it round, and on the other side he saw: - - FIRST PRIZE - (Division I) - - WON BY - - THEO BANKS - -“But who--?” he said. - -Then they explained how Theodore had won the prize, and how there hadn’t -been room to get _all_ his name in, so they had had to put Theo. - -“Well, well, well,” said Mr. Theo. Banks again. - -So, from that day, whenever Mr. and Mrs. Binks came to dinner, there was -the silver cup on the table! - -“Now we shall all live happy ever after, shan’t we?” said Jessica to her -Mother. - -And they did. - - - - -THE MAGIC HILL - -[Illustration: The Magic Hill] - - -Once upon a time there was a King who had seven children. The first -three were boys, and he was glad about this because a King likes to have -three sons; but when the next three were sons also, he was not so glad, -and he wished that one of them had been a daughter. So the Queen said, -“The next shall be a daughter.” And it was, and they decided to call her -Daffodil. - -When the Princess Daffodil was a month old, the King and Queen gave a -great party in the Palace for the christening, and the Fairy Mumruffin -was invited to be Godmother to the little Princess. - -“She is a good fairy,” said the King to the Queen, “and I hope she will -give Daffodil something that will be useful to her. Beauty or Wisdom or -Riches or--” - -“Or Goodness,” said the Queen. - -“Or Goodness, as I was about to remark,” said the King. - -So you will understand how anxious they were when Fairy Mumruffin looked -down at the sleeping Princess in her cradle and waved her wand. - -“They have called you Daffodil,” she said, and then she waved her wand -again: - - “Let Daffodil - The gardens fill. - Wherever you go - Flowers shall grow.” - -There was a moment’s silence while the King tried to think this out. - -“What was that?” he whispered to the Queen. “I didn’t quite get that.” - -“Wherever she walks flowers are going to grow,” said the Queen. “I think -it’s sweet.” - -“Oh,” said the King. “Was that all? She didn’t say anything about--” - -“No.” - -“Oh, well.” - -He turned to thank the Fairy Mumruffin, but she had already flown away. - -It was nearly a year later that the Princess first began to walk, and by -this time everybody had forgotten about the Fairy’s promise. So the King -was rather surprised, when he came back from hunting one day, to find -that his favourite courtyard, where he used to walk when he was -thinking, was covered with flowers. - -“What does this mean?” he said sternly to the chief gardener. - -“I don’t know, your Majesty,” said the gardener, scratching his head. -“It isn’t _my_ doing.” - -“Then who has done it? Who has been here to-day?” - -“Nobody, your Majesty, except her Royal Highness, Princess Daffodil, as -I’ve been told, though how she found her way there, such a baby and all, -bless her sweet little--” - -“That will do,” said the King. “You may go.” - -For now he remembered. This was what the Fairy Mumruffin had promised. - -That evening the King and the Queen talked the matter over very -seriously before they went to bed. - -“It is quite clear,” said the King, “that we cannot let Daffodil run -about everywhere. That would never do. She must take her walks on the -beds. She must be carried across all the paths. It will be annoying in a -way, but in a way it will be useful. We shall be able to do without most -of the gardeners.” - -“Yes, dear,” said the Queen. - -So Daffodil as she grew up was only allowed to walk on the beds, and the -other children were very jealous of her because they were only allowed -to walk on the paths; and they thought what fun it would be if only -they were allowed to run about on the beds just once. But Daffodil -thought what fun it would be if she could run about the paths like other -boys and girls. - -One day, when she was about five years old, a Court Doctor came to see -her. And when he had looked at her tongue, he said to the Queen: - -“Her Royal Highness needs more exercise. She must run about more. She -must climb hills and roll down them. She must hop and skip and jump. In -short, your Majesty, although she is a Princess she must do what other -little girls do.” - -“Unfortunately,” said the Queen, “she is not like other little girls.” -And she sighed and looked out of the window. And out of the window, at -the far end of the garden, she saw a little green hill where no flowers -grew. So she turned back to the Court Doctor and said, “You are right; -she must be as other little girls.” - -So she went to the King, and the King gave the Princess Daffodil the -little green hill for her very own. And every day the Princess Daffodil -played there, and flowers grew; and every evening the girls and boys of -the countryside came and picked the flowers. - -So they called it the Magic Hill. And from that day onward flowers have -always grown on the Magic Hill, and boys and girls have laughed and -played and picked them. - - - - -THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF M. DUPONT - -[Illustration: The Three Daughters of M. Dupont] - - -When Monsieur Dupont was a Frenchman, he had three daughters, and their -names were Anne-Marie, Therèse and _la p’tite_ Georgette. But when he -became an American for a change, he called himself Mr. Dewpond, and his -daughters were called Anne Mary, Terry and George. - -Mrs. Dewpond (who still called herself Madame Dupont when nobody was -looking) had a linen-cupboard of which she was very proud, and it was -her one delight to keep it always full of the most beautiful linen. -Linen fascinated her, just as kittens fascinate other people, and money -fascinates my Uncle James. She was never tired of buying it, and running -her fingers over it, and holding it against her cheek, and then tucking -it lovingly away in her cupboard; and whenever she had a birthday, her -three daughters would put all their savings together and buy her a -table-cloth or a pair of dusters, so that Mrs. Dewpond should say, “My -darlings, but how they are ravishing!” They loved to hear her say this. - -One day Mrs. Dewpond was not very well; and then there were more days -when she was no better; and first a doctor came, and then a nurse came, -and then she and the nurse went away into the country together to see if -that would do her any good. And all the time Mr. Dewpond went about the -house saying “T’chk, t’chk, t’chk” to himself, and looking very -miserable; and Anne Mary wrote to her Mother every day to say that they -were all getting on all right and did want her back so badly; and Terry -ended up her prayers every night with, “And may she suddenly come back -to-morrow morning about half past seven, so that I can wake up and there -she is”; and George kissed the door of her Mother’s empty bedroom every -time she passed it, as a sort of friendly habit; and all the house -called to her to come back to it. - -And at last there came a day when Mr. Dewpond had a letter saying that -Mrs. Dewpond was very nearly well again, and would be home again on -Saturday afternoon. This was on the Monday, so they had less than a week -to wait, and they were all just as happy as they could be, thinking of -it. - -“We must celebrate it,” said Terry solemnly. - -George didn’t know what “celebrate” meant, so Anne Mary explained it to -her until she did know, and then they all wondered how they should do -it. - -“I know,” said Terry suddenly. “Let’s send all the linen to the wash, -and then it will be lovely and clean and smelling lavendery when she -comes back to it.” - -Anne Mary was not sure if this was a good thing to do. There was such a -lot of it, and it would look so funny on the bill if they suddenly had -a hundred and twelve table-cloths, and only one white shirt, and-- - -“Well, anyhow, George thinks it’s a lovely idea,” said Terry carelessly, -“and you know what fun it will be putting it all back again.” - -The thought of putting it all back again was too much for Anne Mary. - -“Very well, darlings,” she said, “we’ll do it. Come along.” - -So they counted it out. There were 112 table-cloths, 42 bath-towels, 73 -small towels, 26 pairs of sheets, 229 pillow-cases, and more dusters -than I can possibly put down here. And they all went to the laundry -together. On the Saturday morning they all came back (except one duster) -and Anne Mary, Terry and George put them in the cupboard as neat as -neat, George being particularly helpful. And then they waited for their -Mother. - -She came at last. Anne Mary said that she was prettier than ever, and -Mr. Dewpond said she had never looked so well, and Terry and George -thought that she was even nicer to kiss than she had ever been before. -For some time they all talked together about everything, and you could -see that Mrs. Dewpond couldn’t help thinking of her linen-cupboard now -and then, but she didn’t say anything; and Terry and George kept -whispering to each other, “Won’t she be surprised when she sees?”--and -sometimes George said to Anne Mary, “How surprised do you think she’ll -be?” At last she got up, saying, “Well, I think I’ll just--” and they -knew where she was going, and they all went with her. She threw open the -chest, and of course she knew at once what had happened. She just -clasped her hands and cried, “My darlings, but how they are ravishing!” -And then they all four hugged each other. - -Later on, when he saw the bill, Mr. Dewpond clasped his hands and cried, -too. - - - - -CASTLES BY THE SEA - -[Illustration: Castles by the Sea] - - -This is a story about Belinda, and, as it is the last, I think I shall -tell it you in poetry. Belinda is the one in mauve, and I could have -written much better poetry if she had been in brown or blue, but Mothers -never think of things like this when they dress their children. However, -she has a little red on her cap, which may be useful. We shall see. - - - _First Verse_ - - - Belinda Brown was six or so, - Belinda had a grown-up spade, - Belinda Brown was six, and oh! - The castle that Belinda made! - -That’s the first verse; and now, if anybody asks you what her name was, -you can answer at once “Belinda, because it says so in one of the -lines.” - - - _Second Verse_ - - Belinda Brown was six or so, - Although she looked a little more, - But she was only six, and oh! - The bonny cap Belinda wore! - -Now you can tell everybody Belinda’s age. Six. With a good poem like -this one doesn’t want to be in a hurry. - - - _Third Verse_ - - Belinda’s cap was mauve and red-- - A pity that it wasn’t blue-- - But it was red and mauve instead, - And very pretty colors, too. - -I think I shall go straight on to the next verse without saying anything -about that one. - - - _Fourth Verse_ - - (_This is going to be a good one_) - - Belinda had a bathing-gown - Which had been brown a week before; - The envy of her native town - The bathing-gown Belinda wore! - -I like that verse. Besides being good poetry, it explains everything. -You see, Belinda’s Aunt Rotunda had given her the beautiful cap, and -when Belinda went to dig castles in the sand, she decided to wear the -cap to keep the sun off her head, but to wear the bathing-dress, too, -so as not to mind if she got wet, which was her own idea and none of the -other children had thought of it. So her Mother said, “Then we’d better -dye the dress mauve,” to which her Father replied, “Wouldn’t it be -easier to dye the cap brown?” And Belinda’s Mother said, “I think, dear, -it might hurt Aunt Rotunda’s feelings.” So-- - - Belinda wore - Her bathing-gown - (A brilliant brown - The week before). - The local store - Had toned it down, - The bathing-gown - Belinda wore. - -I think it looks nicer spread out like that. I will tell you a secret -now. When people pay you to write poetry for them (as they often do), -they pay you so much for every line you write, so sometimes you feel -that a verse looks nice spread out, and sometimes the man who is paying -you feels that it doesn’t. It’s just a matter of taste. - - - _Fifth Verse_ - -(_I’m not counting the last one, because it’s a different shape from the -others_) - - Belinda Brown was not afraid, - (Belinda was as brave as three) - And in the castle she had made - She waited for the rising sea. - Belinda was as brave as 3, - Belinda was as brave as 8; - She waited calmly while the sea - Came in at a tremendous rate. - -And now we are coming to the sad part of the story. There was Belinda, -as you see her in the picture, not a bit afraid, and suddenly-- - - - _Seventh Verse_ - - A monster wave came rolling on, - It washed Belinda’s castle down, - And in a moment they were gone-- - The castle _and_ Belinda Brown. - -But where was Belinda? That was what all the other children said. And -when Mr. and Mrs. Brown came down to the beach they began saying it, -too: “Where _is_ Belinda?” Nobody knew. However, it was all right. - - - _Eighth Verse_ - - They found her later on the hill - A mile or so above the town, - A little out of breath, but still - _Undoubtedly_ Belinda Brown. - -You can imagine how excited they all were. All but Belinda. They came -rushing up to her, saying, “Oh, Belinda, are you hurt?” and, “Are you -_sure_ you’re all right, Belinda darling?” and some of the more polite -ones, who had never seen her before, said, “I trust that you have not -injured yourself in any way, Miss Brown?” And what did Belinda say? - - - _Last Verse_ - - Belinda tossed a scornful head-- - Belinda was as brave as brave-- - Belinda laughed at them and said, - “Oh, wasn’t that a _lovely_ wave?” - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A GALLERY OF CHILDREN *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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