Five Minute Stories
Books by Laura E. Richards
STEPPING WESTWARD
This charming autobiography by the daughter of Julia Ward Howe and Samuel Gridley Howe is replete with amusing anecdotes and portraits, especially of famous literary figures of Boston. It epitomizes a long and useful life. Illustrated.
$3.00
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
The absorbing story of “The Angel of the Crimea” told by the daughter of the person most responsible for encouraging Miss Nightingale to become a nurse.
$1.75
JOAN OF ARC
The stirring life and pathetic death of Domremy’s girlish heroine, who once saved France and today inspires it.
$2.00
ELIZABETH FRY
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Five Minute Stories
FIVE MINUTE STORIES
CONTENTS.
FIVE MINUTE STORIES.
BETTY.
TWO CALLS.
A NEW YEAR SONG.
NEW YEAR.
A LESSON SONG.
THE RUBBER BABY.
THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE.
TOTTY’S CHRISTMAS.
A CERTAIN BOY.
THE NEW SISTER.
BUTTERCUP GOLD.
ONE AFTERNOON.
THE STOVE.
JOHN’S SISTER.
NEW YEAR SONG.
WHAT WAS HER NAME?
A LESSON SONG.
THE PATIENT CAT.
MATHEMATICS.
TOBOGGANING SONG.
SONG OF THE TILT.
THE LAZY ROBIN.
THE BOY’S MANNERS.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
IN THE TUNNEL.
PRACTISING SONG.
QUEEN ELIZABETH’S DANCE.
A STORMING PARTY.
AT THE LITTLE BOY’S HOME.
THEN AND NOW.
PLEASANT WALK.
A GREAT DAY.
A PASTORAL.
RICHES.
POVERTY.
THE BEST OF ALL.
A STUDY HOUR.
THE YOUNG LADIES.
THE WEATHERCOCK.
Icthyology by Laura E. Richards
A HAPPY MORNING.
LILIES AND CAT-TAILS.
THE METALS.
THE HOWLERY GROWLERY ROOM.
THE SPECKLED HEN.
THE MONEY SHOP.
A LONG AFTERNOON.
THE JACKET.
THE FIREWORKS.
JINGLE.
SEE-SAW.
NANCY’S NIGHTMARE
AMY’S VALENTINE.
ONCE UPON A TIME.
THE PATHETIC BALLAD OF CLARINTHIA JANE LOUISA.
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY.
GOOSEY LUCY.
GOOSEY LUCY’S NEW YEAR’S CALLS.
THREE LITTLE BIRDS.
THE QUACKY DUCK.
NEW YEAR THOUGHTS.
NONSENSE.
THE SINGULAR CHICKEN.
THE CLEVER PARSON.
THE PURPLE FISH.
MR. SOMEBODY.
A CHRISTMAS RIDE.
A FUNNY FELLOW.
WOFFSKY-POFFSKY.
APRIL AND THE CHILDREN.
THE SNOWBALL.
A GREAT FIGHT.
HALLELUJAH!
LULLABY.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
NAUGHTY.
HARD TIMES.
ON THE STEEPLE.
NAUGHTY BILLY.
A LAD.
SAINT VALENTINE’S HOUSE.
THE GENTLEMAN.
A LEAP YEAR BOY.
KING PIPPIN.
THE STORY OF THE CRIMSON CRAB.
MOTHER’S RIDDLE.
KING JOHN.
THE SPOTTY COW.
THE BUTTON PIE.
THE INQUISITIVE DUCKS.
QUEEN MATILDA.
THE TWO-SHOES CHAIR.
ETHELRED THE UNREADY.
THE HUSKING OF THE CORN.
THE CLEVER CHEESE-MAKER.
THE SPELLING LESSON.
THE PERSON WHO DID NOT LIKE CATS.
