"But look here!" said the Rector, affecting a great appearance of severity, "you're my Brownie, not his. Supposing Tommy Trout had gone and weeded Farmer Swede's garden, and brought back his weeds to go to seed on the Tailor's flower-beds, how do you think he would have liked it?"
Tiny looked rather crestfallen. When one has fairly carried through a splendid benevolence of this kind, it is trying to find oneself in the wrong. She crept up to the Rector, however, and put her golden head upon his arm.
"But, Father dear," she pleaded, "I didn't mean not to be your Brownie; only, you know, you had got five left at home, and it was only for a short time, and the Doctor hasn't any Brownie at all. Don't you pity him?"
And the Rector, who was old enough to remember that grave-stone story we wot of, hugged his Brownie in his arms, and answered—
"My Darling, I do pity him!"
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- Man Without a Country. By Edward Everett Hale.
- Marjorie's Three Gifts. By Louisa M. Alcott.
- May Flowers. Louisa M. Alcott.
- Miss Toosey's Mission.
- Nonsense Songs. Edward Lear.
- Rags and Velvet Gowns. By A. G. Plympton.
- Story of a Short Life. By Juliana H. Ewing.
- Sundown Songs. By Laura E. Richards.
- That Little Smith Girl. By Nora Perry.
- Under the Stable Floor. By Mary Caroline Hyde.
- Christmas at Tappan Sea. By Mary Caroline Hyde.
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- Land of Lost Toys. By Juliana H. Ewing.
- Great Emergency. By Juliana H. Ewing.
- Two Girls. By Susan Coolidge.
- Little Tommy Tucker. By Susan Coolidge.
- Poppies and Wheat. By Louisa M. Alcott.
- Candy Country. By Louisa M. Alcott.
- Jessie's Neighbors. By Louise Chandler Moulton.
- A Brave Coward. A. G. Plympton.
- A Christmas Dream. By Louisa M. Alcott.
- A Lost Hero. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Herbert D. Ward.
- Benjy in Beastland. By Juliana H. Ewing.
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- Little Bo-Peep and Queen Blossom. By Susan Coolidge.
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- Uncle and Aunt. Susan Coolidge.