May BasketsSpring was late that year, but to Jill it seemed the loveliest she had ever known, for hope was growing green and strong in her own little ...
Good Templars"Hi there! Bell's rung! Get up, lazy-bones!" called Frank from his room as the clock struck six one bright morning, and a g...
A Sweet MemoryNow the lovely June days had come, everything began to look really summer-like; school would soon be over, and the young people were joy...
Pebbly Beach"Now, Mr. Jack, it is a moral impossibility to get all those things into one trunk, and you mustn't ask it of me," said Mrs....
A Happy Day"Oh dear! Only a week more, and then we must go back. Don't you hate the thoughts of it?" said Jack, as he was giving Jill he...
Cattle ShowThe children were not the only ones who had learned something at Pebbly Beach. Mrs. Minot had talked a good deal with some very superior pe...
Down The RiverA fortnight later, the boys were picking apples one golden October afternoon, and the girls were hurrying to finish their work, that the...
It was the Feast of the New Year, the oldest and most splendid of all the feasts in the Kingdom of Persia, and the day had been spent by the king in t...
Meanwhile, Prince Firouz Schah had gone gaily up into the air, and for the space of an hour continued to ascend higher and higher, till the very mount...
So the prince began at the beginning, and told all the story of the festival of Nedrouz held yearly in Persia, and of the splendid spectacles celebrat...