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Seven O'Clock Stories by Anderson, Robert Gordon
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A word from our supporters: File extension RATDVD | Produced by Juliet Sutherland, William Flis, Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. SEVEN O'CLOCK STORIES BY ROBERT GORDON ANDERSON TO JEAN AND MALCOLM TO WHOM THESE STORIES WERE FIRST TOLD CONTENTS FIRST NIGHT THE THREE HAPPY CHILDREN SECOND NIGHT THE PLAYMATES OF THE THREE HAPPY CHILDREN THIRD NIGHT NOISY FOLKS FOURTH NIGHT JUST BEFORE SUPPER FIFTH NIGHT THE TOYMAN SIXTH NIGHT THE WILLOW WHISTLE SEVENTH NIGHT MR. SCARECROW EIGHTH NIGHT THE PRETTIEST FAIRY STORY IN THE WORLD NINTH NIGHT ANOTHER TRUE FAIRY STORY TENTH NIGHT THE HAPPY ENDING OF THE ORIOLE'S STORY ELEVENTH NIGHT MOTHER HEN AND ROBBER HAWK TWELFTH NIGHT ABOUT DUCKIE THE STEPCHILD AND THE LITTLE SHIP THIRTEENTH NIGHT THE TALL ENEMY FOURTEENTH NIGHT THE SLEIGH AND THE TINY REINDEER FIFTEENTH NIGHT JACK FROST AND THE MAN-IN-THE-MOON SIXTEENTH NIGHT SLOSHIN' SEVENTEENTH NIGHT THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN EIGHTEENTH NIGHT THE JOLLY CLOWN NINETEENTH NIGHT WIENERWURST'S BRAVE BATTLE TWENTIETH NIGHT THE LIONS OF THE NORTH WIND ILLUSTRATIONS "AND THERE ON THE HILL SAT A JOLLY OLD MAN, ROUND AND FAT, WITH A PIPE IN HIS MOUTH AND A SACK ON HIS BACK" "THE THREE HAPPY CHILDREN LIVE IN THE COUNTRY" "WIENERWURST CAUGHT A PRETTY PIGEON BY ITS TAIL AND BIT IT" "THE DUCKS, THE SWANS, AND THE GEESE ARE VERY FOND OF THE POND, BUT THEIR COUSINS THINK IT A DREADFUL PLACE" "PRIMROSE, DAISY, BUTTERCUP, AND OLD BLACK-EYED SUSAN WALKED INTO THE BIG BARN" "ON THE LINE SOMETHING WRIGGLED. IT WAS ROUND AND SHINY AND GOLD" "THE TOYMAN WORKED WITH HIS KNIFE VERY CAREFULLY" "'THERE, OLD WOODEN TOP,' THE TOYMAN SPOKE TO MR. SCARECROW STERNLY" "THE THREE HAPPY CHILDREN SET TO WORK WITH THE THREE SHINY RAKES" "THE ORIOLES WERE VERY HAPPY BIRDS" "FATHER AND MOTHER ORIOLE TAUGHT THEM TO FLY" "THE EVIL EYE OF ROBBER HAWK LOOKED DOWN AT THE FRIGHTENED WHITE WYANDOTTES" "THE WIND FILLED THE SAILS OF THE LITTLE SHIP AND OFF SHE WENT" "ON THROUGH THE SNOW THE TALL ENEMY MARCHED" "HITCHED TO THE SLEIGH WERE TWO TINY BROWN REINDEER WITH YELLOW HORNS" "HE HAD ONE FRIEND LEFT, LITTLE WIENERWURST" "THE TIGER LOOKED AT ALL THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE WINDOWS AND DOORS" "THE TOYMAN SAW MARMADUKE WAY UP ON THE BACK OF THE BIG ELEPHANT" "QUICK AS A FLASH THE BIG DOG JUMPED AT LITTLE WIENERWURST" "HE WASN'T AFRAID OF ANYTHING WHEN HE WAS SAFE IN THE TOYMAN'S ARMS" FIRST NIGHT THE THREE HAPPY CHILDREN Not once upon a time but just now, in a white house by the side of a road, live three happy children. Their mother and father gave them very odd names, for two old uncles and one aunt, which pleased the old people very much. Their names are all written in the big family Bible,--Jehosophat Green, Marmaduke Green, and Hepzebiah Green. Jehosophat is just seven years old. His birthday comes on Thanksgiving Day this year. It does not come on Thanksgiving Day every year, of course. See if you can guess why. Marmaduke is five, "going on six," he always says. Little Hepzebiah, who toddles after her brothers, tells everyone who comes to visit that she is "half-past three." She heard her brother say this once and she imitates all he does and says. Perhaps that is why her father calls her a "little monkey." These happy children all live in the country. They do not know much about elevated trains and subways and automobiles and moving pictures but they do know a great deal about flowers and birds and chestnuts and picnics and lots of things which you would like too, if you lived in the country. |