Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Little Peter is a tale of a young boy who lived on the edge of the pine forest in a big wooden house with his parents, his two brothers and their servants Eliza and Gustavus. Peter is the youngest child in the Lepage family by number of years and this Christmas he is about to have an adventure to remember.
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Lucas Malet. Little Peter (Musaicum Christmas Specials)
Little Peter (Musaicum Christmas Specials)
Table of Contents
Chapter I. Which Deals With the Opinions of a Cat, and the Sorrows of a Charcoal Burner
Chapter II. Which Introduces the Reader to an Admirer of the Ancient Romans
Chapter III. Which Improves Our Acquaintance With the Grasshopper Man
Chapter IV. Which Leaves Some at Home and Takes Some to Church
Chapter V. Which Is Both Social and Religious
Chapter VI. Which Attempts to Show Why the Skies Fall
Chapter VII. Which Describes a Pleasant Dinner-Party, and an Unpleasant Walk
Chapter VIII. Which Proves That Even Philosophic Politicians May Have to Admit Themselves in the Wrong
Chapter IX. Which Is Very Short, Because, in Some Ways, It Is Rather Sad
Chapter X. Which Ends the Story
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Lucas Malet
Christmas Specials Series
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Then she reproved Eliza for her conduct in various matters which had nothing in the world to do with her remarks upon the charcoal-burner. Even the best of women are not always quite logical.
Meanwhile little Peter had sat down on his stool by the fire. For a little while he sat very still, for he was thinking over the visit of his friend John Paqualin. He felt rather unhappy about him, he could not quite have said why. But when we are children it is not easy to think of any one person or one thing for long together. There are such lots of things to think about, that one chases another out of our heads very quickly. And so Peter soon gave up puzzling himself about the charcoal-burner, and began counting the sparks as they flew out of the blazing, crackling, pine logs up the wide chimney. Unfortunately, however, he was not a great arithmetician; and though he began over and over again at plain one, two, three, he always got wrong among the fifteens and sixteens; and never succeeded in counting up to twenty at all. Nothing is more tedious than making frequent mistakes. So he got off his stool, and began hopping from one stone quarry in the kitchen floor to the next. Suddenly he became entangled in Eliza's full petticoats—she was whirling them about a good deal, it is true, being in rather a bad temper—and nearly tumbled down on his poor, little nose.
