W. H. D. Rouse
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first heard Aug 2026
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but at heart they are still children they have never escaped from their thirteenth year and they never will and they are very glad about it to this astonishing harangue alice had no reply for truth to tell she understood very little of it but it sounded real and she liked the look on the old bookman's face as he said it
would you mind sir she timidly asked if i were to creep back into my book and hide again on your shelf
are you quite sure you can manage it asked the old man oh yes said alice for i still have a piece of cake that i brought with me i had two pieces one to make me grow and one to make me small again just watch me then she took a few crumbs of cake from her pocket and began to eat them and the old bookman standing by saw her shrink down and down and down until she was such a tiny little thing at his feet that his eyes could barely find her
he picked her up gently and opened the book lying on the counter you must find the place he said do you remember it with a little sigh of relief alice slipped into the right picture where to her great joy she fitted like a glove and suddenly the picture was complete again and the old bookman turning the leaves over could not find her there were so many of her and he did not know which one was really her
suddenly the book fell from his hand and clattered onto the floor striking his foot as it fell at the same instant of course he awoke sitting in his chair near the old stove he smiled a little but was not surprised for he was used to dreaming strange and pleasant dreams as he stooped to pick up the book a customer entered the store
what have you there asked the stranger looking at the book in the old man's hand alice in wonderland charming thing what do you ask for it not this copy said the old man firmly this is my personal copy this is one book you cannot buy
part x of a christmas miscellany twenty twenty three by various authors part x the story of zephyr a christmas story chapter i edward's wish
father may i have an english setter for my christmas present edwiz spoke in a subdued tone for the president of a certain association a country club of which his father was a member had come to say good-bye one branch of the party of campers on the lake was about to break up city schools were calling them from forest and from field
the stranger had taken a seat on the broad veranda his dog at his heels his carriage and horses waiting bruno knew his little friend edwy the boy stood stroking the dog's ears and speaking gentle words to him
the dog seemed to listen but although he was all attention and laid his head down on crossed paws one eye was alert for the movement of his master a dog an english setter like bruno was one thing which edwy had sought with constant iteration since he was old enough to talk especially since he had seen the devotion of bruno for his master and even his master's horses
he had also gained the dog's confidence towards himself edwy's mother felt that she must not let him keep on hoping for the impossible they could not take a dog to a city home while they were building the camp on the lake it was equally out of the question either to carry him back and forth on the cars or to leave him at home with servants while all the family were away
as he stood stroking the dog's ears and speaking his own little tender words to him the watchful mother explained aside the reason of the refusal you know edwy a dog gets so terribly homesick if left in the care of servants just see how bruno is waiting to leap to his master's side and fly down the road the moment the horses hoofs ring on the highway when you are older
how edwy hated the words when you are older it always meant that you couldn't have something when you wanted it but as he was a well-bred child he always kept quiet in company he had sometimes confided to willard his brother but that didn't help much could i have a kitten then i do want some kind of a thing that isn't either dumb or dead
a certain chum of edwy's not the usual kind of a chum but one in his own and willard's estimation well worth of the name had noticed the fact that the child had so bravely banished the frown of disappointment she had also noted the fact that no ban had been placed against a kitten and a plan was forming in her mind but she did not divulge it
chapter two the little trapper edwy had been called the little trapper he had read every book he could find about animals after reading some of them he would be the warrior bold would long to be old enough to shoot and slay and pursue big game through the forest spaces but bless his heart he hadn't the least idea that there was any tragedy in it
he had made box traps with his own hands but in such a way however that it would hardly frighten the little creatures to be caught for he would only keep the little prisoners an hour or a minute perhaps feed them and let them go free
one day he had found in his trap a pretty brown-eyed muskrat and the creature found himself liberated beside his own stream not a bit the worse for his experience and one day he found a strange slate-colored dormouse but it had managed to get out of its cage by its own ingenuity or some one's help
another day he caught several little squirrels first getting one then another and another and letting them pass by a bridge of his own or his father's contriving from one box to another but they were all to be set free in a short time and seemed to think it was mere play
at first they seemed to try to tease each other their comrades for the moment he had discovered that in this first stage they would not eat but after a while he had rushed into the house to tell willard his new discovery why willard they've got all acquainted with each other and they know me they seem to know that i don't mean to hurt them and now they grab for anything i'll offer them to eat
it soon became evident that the squirrel families would have to be more severely dealt with for more than once they had disturbed the little birds on their nests and in some cases had been known to destroy their eggs so a plan was formed to transport one or two of the squirrel families to another portion of the woods and thus leave the robins and the warblers in undisputed possession near the camp
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