STORIES OLD AND NEW
A small chosen library is like a walled garden wherea child may safely play. In that charmed seclusion thelove of books, like the love of flowers, grows of itself. Ifthe reading habit is to be acquired, the child ought fromthe first to be given real books, which may be handledwith pleasure and kept with pride—books containingliterature suited to its own age.
This volume belongs to a series of "Stories Old andNew" which has been prepared specially for children.The books have been carefully chosen so as to include,along with many charming stories by the best children'sauthors of to-day, a due proportion of those older taleswhich never grow old.
To secure simplicity and right gradation, the texthas been prepared to suit the different ages of readers.Care has been given to the illustration, print, andbinding of the series, for it is believed that this isthe best way to secure from the children that carefulhandling of the volumes which is the mark of the truebook-lover.
CONTENTS
| I | Introductory | 3 |
| II | The Christmas Cuckoo | 18 |
| III | Lady Greensleeves | 51 |
| IV | Childe Charity | 76 |
| V | Sour and Civil | 92 |
| VI | Prince Wisewit's Return | 118 |
GRANNY'S
WONDERFUL CHAIR
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
In an old time, long ago, when the fairieswere in the world, there lived a little girlso very fair and pleasant of look, that theycalled her Snowflower. This girl was goodas well as pretty. No one had ever seenher frown or heard her say a cross word,and young and old were glad