Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

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Yonge Charlotte Mary. Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

CHAPTER I. MOTHER BUNCH

CHAPTER II. VISITORS FROM THE SOUTH SEAS

CHAPTER III. ITALY

CHAPTER IV. GREENLAND

CHAPTER V. TYROL

CHAPTER VI. AFRICA

CHAPTER VII. LAPLANDERS

CHAPTER VIII. CHINA

CHAPTER IX. KAMSCHATKA

CHAPTER X. THE TURK

CHAPTER XI. SWITZERLAND

CHAPTER XII. THE COSSACK

CHAPTER XIII. SPAIN

CHAPTER XIV. GERMANY

CHAPTER XV. PARIS IN THE SIEGE

CHAPTER XVI. THE AMERICAN GUEST

CHAPTER XVII. THE DREAM OF ALL NATIONS

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There was once a wonderful fortnight in little Lucy's life. One evening she went to bed very tired and cross and hot, and in the morning when she looked at her arms and legs they were all covered with red spots, rather pretty to look at, only they were dry and prickly.

Nurse was frightened when she looked at them. She turned all the little sisters out of the night nursery, covered Lucy up close, and ordered her not to stir, certainly not to go into her bath. Then there was a whispering and a running about, and Lucy was half alarmed, but more pleased at being so important, for she did not feel at all ill, and quite enjoyed the tea and toast that Nurse brought up to her. Just as she was beginning to think it rather tiresome to lie there with nothing to do, except to watch the flies buzzing about, there was a step on the stairs and up came the doctor. He was an old friend, very good-natured, and he made fun with Lucy about having turned into a spotted leopard, just like the cowry shell on Mrs. Bunker's mantelpiece. Indeed, he said he thought she was such a curiosity that Mrs. Bunker would come for her and set her up in the museum, and then he went away. Suppose, oh, suppose she did!

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"Suppose I did, Miss Lucy, and where would your poor uncle's preserved ginger be, that no one knows from real West Indian?"

"Oh, let me come into your room, and you can tell me all the time you are doing the ginger."

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