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Hoodie By: Mrs. Molesworth (1839-1921) |
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by MRS. MOLESWORTH Illustrated by Lewis Baumer W. & R. Chambers. Limited.
London and Edinburgh.
1897 Edinburgh:
Printed by W. & R. Chambers, Limited.
[Illustration: "Nobody loves poor Hoodie."]
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. AT WAR WITH THE WORLD CHAPTER II. HOODIE GOES IN SEARCH OF A GRANDMOTHER CHAPTER III. LITTLE BABY AND ITS MOTHER CHAPTER IV. MAUDIE'S GODMOTHER CHAPTER V. STORIES TELLING CHAPTER VI. "THE CHINTZ CURTAINS" CHAPTER VII. TWO TRUES CHAPTER VIII. HOODIE'S FOUNDLING CHAPTER IX. THE GOLDEN CAGE CHAPTER X. FLOWN CHAPTER XI. HOODIE'S DISOBEDIENCE CHAPTER XII. HOODIE AWAKES
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
"Nobody loves poor Hoodie" "I had my basket on my arm, and the big doggie stood beside me" "It's just like Martin's cottage" "Who is zou, please?" Poor Cross "Up in the nursley," said Hoodie coolly "Has zou had a nice sleep?" "He took off the cap and bowed low" Hec and Duke ... sticking daisies on to a thorn "If peoples interrumpt, I wish they'd finish their interrumpting,
and not stop in the middle" "The darling," said Hoodie ecstatically Hec refused to be comforted "Please 'agive me and kiss me" "Slowly and cautiously, whistling softly all the time" "Oh dear," she exclaimed. "Are the flowers all gone?" "Tell Martin they're for Miss Maudie with Miss Hoodie's love" Finis
[Illustration: HOODIE]
CHAPTER I. AT WAR WITH THE WORLD. "Who would think so small a thing
Could make so great a pother?"
A pretty, cheerful nursery a nursery in which surely children could not
but be happy with pictures on the walls and toys in the glass doored
cupboard, and rocking horse and doll house, and everything a child's
heart could wish for. Spring sunshine faint but clear, like the first
pale primrose, peeping in at the window, a merry fire crackling away in
the tidy hearth. And just in front of it, for it is early spring only, a
group of children pleasant to see. A soft haired, quiet eyed little
girl, a book open upon her knee, and at each side, nestling in beside
her, a cherub faced dot of a boy, listening to the story she was reading
aloud. Such a peaceful, pretty picture! Ah yes what a pity to disturb it. But
I must show you the whole of it. Into this pretty nursery flies another
child a tiny fairy of a girl, tiny even for her years which are but
five in she flies, down the long passage which leads to the children's
quarters, in at the nursery door, which, in spite of her hurry, she
carefully closes, and seeing that the other door is open closes it too,
then, flying back to the centre of the room, deliberately sets to work
to children, can you guess? to scream ! She sheds no tears, there is no grief, only wrath, great and furious, in
the little face which should have been so pretty, in the big blue eyes
which should have been so sweet. She shakes herself till her fair,
fluffy hair is all in a "touzle," she dances with rage till her neck and
arms are crimson, from time to time in the middle of her screams calling
out at the pitch of her voice, "I don't love any body. I don't want any 'sing. I don't like any
'sing. Go away ugly evybody. I don't love Pince. Go away ugly Pince." The girl by the fire looked up for a moment. "Prince isn't here," she said. "Oh, Hoodie," she went on wearily, "how
can you how can you be so naughty?" Hoodie turned towards her sister. "I don't love zou , Maudie. Naughty, ugly Maudie. Pince sall be
here. Naughty Maudie. I sall be naughty. I don't love any body." "Nebber mind, Maudie dear, nebber mind naughty Hoodie. Hoodie's always
naughty. Please go on, Maudie," said one of the two little boys. Magdalen tried to go on. But in the midst of such a din, it was very
difficult to make herself heard, and at last she gave up in despair. "It's no good, Hec," she said, "I can't go on. Hoodie spoils everything
when she gets like that." The little fellows' faces lengthened... Continue reading book >>
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