Anne's terrible good nature, and other stories for children

Chapter 3: ILLUSTRATIONS

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About This Book

A collection of eleven short stories for children that mix gentle humor with close observation of everyday life. Several pieces follow a well-meaning but impractical girl whose generous impulses produce comic misunderstandings, while others turn on boys’ adventures, animal antics, and light domestic mischief. The volume experiments with personification and playful conceits, including coins narrating their own journeys and imaginative sketches of street cries, notice-boards, and a shilling’s day. The tone remains whimsical and mildly ironic, offering small moral touches without didacticism.

ILLUSTRATIONS

TO FACE PAGE
TO THE OLD WOMAN’S INTENSE ASTONISHMENT, SHE GAVE HER ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR OF HER THREEPENNY BITS frontispiece
“PLEASE DON’T TROUBLE TO GO BACK. I’LL LEND YOU THE CUPS AND SAUCERS”	19
THESE TOMMY CATHCART AND SHE SLIPPED INTO THE HANDS OF THE SANDWICH-MEN	44
THE PRESENCE OF SO SMALL A CRICKETER MADE A GREAT SENSATION AMONG THE PORTERS	64
“DO LOOK AT THAT QUEER LITTLE MAN!”	80
“WE HAD IT MADE ON PURPOSE”	103
THERE WAS CHRISTINA	114
WHILE MARY HELD THE LANTERN, HE WORKED AWAY AT THE FASTENINGS	162
A LITTLE PROCESSION PASSED THE DOORWAY	181
“YES, NURSE, BUT DO TELL ME WHAT SPEKE DID?”	206
“A BLUE RIBBON WAS THREADED THROUGH ME, AND I WAS HUNG ROUND A LITTLE GIRL’S NECK”	229
“WILL YOU TELL ME WHAT MR. DEAR IS LIKE?”	255