LAZY MATILDA
and OTHER TALES

“Oh, grandmamma, I’m reading now,”

The lazy Annie said,

“I do not want to leave my book,

Mayn’t Mary go instead?”

LAZY MATILDA
and OTHER TALES

BY
KATHARINE PYLE
AUTHOR OF “CARELESS JANE AND OTHER TALES,”
“WHERE THE WIND BLOWS,” “FAIRY TALES
FROM MANY LANDS,” ETC.

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC.

COPYRIGHT, 1921,
BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
All Rights Reserved

First printing September, 1921
Second printing September, 1925
Third printingMarch, 1926
Fourth printingJuly, 1930