All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life

Chapter 43: PUSSY WILLOW AND THE SOUTH WIND.

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A varied anthology of travel sketches, short tales, poems, and domestic vignettes by multiple contributors, offering lively impressions of foreign cities and countryside alongside thrilling adventures and gentle children’s stories. Pieces range from first-person travel sketches that capture street scenes, markets, and local customs to whimsical and moral short fiction and occasional verse. The collection alternates descriptive reportage and imaginative narratives, often accompanied by illustrations, and emphasizes vivid sensory detail, folk practices, everyday amusements, and small moral or comic resolutions, providing a blend of light entertainment, practical observation, and homely sentiment.

PUSSY WILLOW AND THE SOUTH WIND.

Fie! moping still by the sleepy brook?

Little Miss Pussy, how dull you look!

Prithee, throw off that cloak of brown,

And give me a glimpse of your gray silken gown!

My gray silken gown, Sir Wind, is done,

Put its golden fringes are not quite spun.

What a slow little spinner! pray, pardon me,

But I have had time to cross the sea.

Haste forth, dear Miss Pussy! the sky is blue,

And I’ve a secret to whisper to you.

Nay, nay, they say Winds are changeful things,

I’ll wait, if you please, till the Bluebird sings.