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Mary's Meadow, Snap-Dragons, Dandelion Clocks, and Other Stories
Mary's Meadow SnapDragons Dandelion Clocks and Other Stories Author:Juliana Horatia Ewing General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: Little, Brown Description: JULIANA HORATIA EWINGS - MARYS MEADOW SNAP-DRAGON S DANDELION CLOCKS AND OTHER STORIES - 1891, -- CONTENTS. PAGE MARYS ISIEA1OW. I LETTERS FROll rl I, ITTI, E GARIIES . 94 SNAP-IIKAGONS . . 129 DAhTDELIOS CLOCKS . . 162 TIIE BLI... more »ND MAN ANI IIiE IALIIhTG IJOG 173 SO-SO . I80 TIIE TRINITY EI, OVFK . . 187 THE KYRIEGRI-I TURNEI IKEACHEK . 203 LADTERS TO TIEAVEN . . 211 SUNFLOWERS AND A IIUSII1, IGEIT . . 219 TIN-S TRICICS ANT TOBYS TRICKS. 254 TIIE OWL IN TIlE IVY BUSII . . 362 TEIE SMUT . . 278 TIIE CRICK . . TIIE BROTIIERS . . 282 COUSIN PEREGRINES TONIEK SrTOIIES . 287 COUSIN PEREGRINES TKAVE1, LEKS TALES 317 THE SNARLING PRINCESS . 337 THE LITTLE P.4RSSTI MAN . 346 A CHILDS JVISIIES . 365 MARYS MEADOW. -- CHAPTER I. MOTHER is always trying tq make us love our neighbors as ourselves. She does so despise us for greediness, or grudging or snatching, or not sharing what we have got, or taking the best and leaving the rest, or helping ourselves first, or pushing forward, or praising Number One, or being Dogs in the Manger, or anything selfish. And we cannot bear her to despise us We despise being selfish, too but very often we forget. Besides, it is sometimes rather difficult to love your neighbor as yourself when you want a thing very much and Arthur says he believes it is particularly difficult if it is your next-door-neighbor, and that that is why Father and the Old Squire quarrelled about the footpath through Marys Meadow. The Old Squire is not really his name, but that is what people call him. He is very rich. His place comes next to ours, and it is much bigger, and he has quantities of fields, and Father has only got a few but there are two fields beyond Marys Meadow which belong toFather, though the Old Squire wanted to buy them. Father would not sell them, and he says he has a right of way through Marys Meadow to go to his fields, but the Old Sq...« less