Five Minute Stories
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Richards Laura Elizabeth Howe. Five Minute Stories
BETTY
TWO CALLS
A NEW YEAR SONG
NEW YEAR
A LESSON SONG
THE RUBBER BABY
THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE
TOTTY’S CHRISTMAS
A CERTAIN BOY
THE NEW SISTER
BUTTERCUP GOLD
ONE AFTERNOON
THE STOVE
JOHN’S SISTER
NEW YEAR SONG
WHAT WAS HER NAME?
A LESSON SONG
THE PATIENT CAT
MATHEMATICS
BY THE FADING LIGHT
TOBOGGANING SONG
SONG OF THE TILT
THE LAZY ROBIN
THE BOY’S MANNERS
MERRY CHRISTMAS
RINKTUM
IN THE TUNNEL
PRACTISING SONG
QUEEN ELIZABETH’S DANCE
A STORMING PARTY
AT THE LITTLE BOY’S HOME
THEN AND NOW
PLEASANT WALK
A GREAT DAY
A PASTORAL
RICHES
POVERTY
THE BEST OF ALL
A STUDY HOUR
THE YOUNG LADIES
THE WEATHERCOCK
ICTHYOLOGY BY LAURA E. RICHARDS
A HAPPY MORNING
LILIES AND CAT-TAILS
THE METALS
THE HOWLERY GROWLERY ROOM
THE SPECKLED HEN
THE MONEY SHOP
A LONG AFTERNOON
THE JACKET
THE FIREWORKS
JINGLE
SEE-SAW
NANCY’S NIGHTMARE
AMY’S VALENTINE
ONCE UPON A TIME
THE PATHETIC BALLAD OF CLARINTHIA JANE LOUISA
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY
GOOSEY LUCY
GOOSEY LUCY’S NEW YEAR’S CALLS
THREE LITTLE BIRDS
THE QUACKY DUCK
NEW YEAR THOUGHTS
NONSENSE
THE SINGULAR CHICKEN
THE CLEVER PARSON
THE PURPLE FISH
MR. SOMEBODY
A CHRISTMAS RIDE
A FUNNY FELLOW
WOFFSKY-POFFSKY
APRIL AND THE CHILDREN
THE SNOWBALL
A GREAT FIGHT
HALLELUJAH!
LULLABY
MERRY CHRISTMAS
THE LITTLE DOG WITH THE GREEN TAIL. AN UNTRUE STORY
NAUGHTY
HARD TIMES
ON THE STEEPLE
NAUGHTY BILLY
A LAD
SAINT VALENTINE’S HOUSE
THE GENTLEMAN
A LEAP YEAR BOY
KING PIPPIN
THE STORY OF THE CRIMSON CRAB
MOTHER’S RIDDLE
KING JOHN
THE SPOTTY COW
THE BUTTON PIE
THE INQUISITIVE DUCKS
QUEEN MATILDA
THE TWO-SHOES CHAIR
ETHELRED THE UNREADY
POOR BONNY. A TRUE STORY
THE HUSKING OF THE CORN
THE CLEVER CHEESE-MAKER
THE SPELLING LESSON
THE PERSON WHO DID NOT LIKE CATS
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Beau Philip and Beau Bobby stood side by side on the doorstep of their father’s house. They were brothers, though you would hardly have thought it, for one was very big and one was very little.
Beau Philip was tall and slender, with handsome dark eyes, and a silky brown moustache which he was fond of curling at the ends. He wore a well-fitting overcoat, and a tall hat and pearl-gray kid gloves.
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“Nobody!” said Bobby. “I brought it myself. It was my rose. You see,” he said, drawing his stool up to the little stove, “I heard you say, yesterday, Mrs. Flanagan, when you brought my shirts home, that you had never had a New Year’s call in your life; so I thought I would make you one to-day, you see. Happy New Year!”
“Happy New Year to yersilf, me sweet jewel!” cried good Mrs. Flanagan. “And blessings go wid every day of it, for your kind heart and your sweet face. I had a sore spot in my heart this day, Master Bobby, bein’ so far from my own people; but it’s you have taken it away this minute, wid yer sweet rose and yer bright smile. See now, till I put it in my best chiny taypot. Ain’t that lovely, now?”
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