Pippa sang all that glorious day. She did not know what her song had done for others. When she lay down to sleep she said:
“I should have done something to-day besides sing,” but those who heard her thought that Pippa had done a wonderful thing.
LOUIS AND THE THREE WISHES
In which a little boy has some adventures with his gun and his fiddle.
Louis had worked for his master for three years and had only cast-off clothes to wear. One day he went to him and said:
“I will have to go out into the world and earn my living—if you think I have earned anything here, pay me.”
“Upon my soul,” said the man, “I will give you only three pennies.”
Louis felt quite rich for he had never had a penny in all his life. He started off, but while seated upon a rock up came the ugliest man he had ever seen, and asked for something because he was hungry.