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Miss Muffet's Christmas Party By: Samuel McChord Crothers (1857-1927) |
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By Samuel M. Crothers MEDITATIONS ON VOTES FOR WOMEN.
HUMANLY SPEAKING.
AMONG FRIENDS.
BY THE CHRISTMAS FIRE.
THE PARDONER'S WALLET.
THE ENDLESS LIFE.
THE GENTLE READER.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: THE AUTOCRAT AND HIS FELLOW
BOARDERS. With Portrait.
MISS MUFFET'S CHRISTMAS PARTY. Illustrated.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
MISS MUFFET'S CHRISTMAS PARTY [Illustration: A visitor came (page 4)]
MISS MUFFET'S CHRISTMAS PARTY BY SAMUEL McCHORD CROTHERS ILLUSTRATIONS BY OLIVE M. LONG BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT 1902 BY SAMUEL McCHORD CROTHERS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published November, 1902
TO MARGERY
BECAUSE, AMONG OTHER THINGS,
WE LIKE THE SAME PEOPLE [Illustration]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE A visitor came ( page 4 ) Frontispiece
Chapter Heading 1
Mrs. Muffet had read this in a book 2
To meditate on the passage of time 3
The kind of thing that Miss Muffet sat on 4
Fairly jumped off her tuffet 6
Chapter Heading 8
They sat down 9
Every town crier in England 13
The blighted being 15
Chapter Heading 18
Miss Muffet closed her eyes 19
She could catch glimpses of travelers 20
Tom Sawyer trying to "hitch on" behind 21
Alice with all the strange friends she had found in Wonderland 23
" This is the main caravan road to Bagdad " 25
Elves 28
The woods were full of merry little people 29
An old witch who was not nearly so bad as she looked 31
Chapter Heading 32
Introduced the Orientals to the North Country people 33
Aladdin explains the virtues of his lamp 37
" Listening . . . is hard on the eyes " 39
Chapter Heading 44
The shyest persons in the room 45
Scampering off into the dark 47
Chapter Heading 54
" I am sorry to be so late " 55
Hal cut his string 63
" I don't think I ever knew two persons more different " 65
" You dear little Rosamond " 67
Chapter Heading 69
One was beating the other 71
A little talk about dervishry 73
An expressive glance at the executioner 75
Aladdin's brother and the Dervish 79
Chapter Heading 82
" I must have the full set " 85
Telling anecdotes 87
" It all depends on grammar " 89
Chapter Heading 92
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 93
He was a little prudent 96
The Rockaby Lady saying good night 97
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