Featured Stories
The Little Robber Girl
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Categories
A FAIRY-TALE
Aesop
ALPHABET RHYMES
AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES
AMUSING ALPHABETS
Animal Sketches And Stories
ANIMAL STORIES
ARBOR DAY
BIRD DAY
Blondine Bonne Biche and Beau Minon
Bohemian Story
BRER RABBIT and HIS NEIGHBORS
CATS
CHINESE MOTHER-GOOSE RHYMES
CHRISTMAS DAY
COLUMBUS DAY
CUSTOM RHYMES
Didactic Stories
Everyday Verses
EVIL SPIRITS
FABLES
FABLES FOR CHILDREN
FABLES FROM INDIA
FATHER PLAYS AND MOTHER PLAYS
FIRST STORIES FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK
For Classes Ii. And Iii.
For Classes Iv. And V.
For Kindergarten And Class I.
FUN FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK
GERMAN
Good Little Henry
HALLOWEEN
Happy Days
INDEPENDENCE DAY
JAPANESE AND OTHER ORIENTAL TALES]
Jean De La Fontaine
King Alexander's Adventures
KINGS AND WARRIORS
LABOR DAY
LAND AND WATER FAIRIES
Lessons From Nature
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
LITTLE STORIES that GROW BIG
Love Lyrics
Lyrics
MAY DAY
MEMORIAL DAY
Modern
MODERN FABLES
MODERN FAIRY TALES
MOTHER GOOSE CONTINUED
MOTHER GOOSE JINGLES
MOTHER GOOSE SONGS AND STORIES
MOTHERS' DAY
Myths And Legends
NATURE SONGS
NEGLECT THE FIRE
NUMBER RHYMES
NURSERY GAMES
NURSERY-SONGS.
NURSEY STORIES
OLD-FASHIONED STORIES
ON POPULAR EDUCATION
OURSON
Perseus
PLACES AND FAMILIES
Poems Of Nature
Polish Story
Popular
PROVERB RHYMES
RESURRECTION DAY (EASTER)
RHYMES CONCERNING "MOTHER"
RIDDLE RHYMES
RIDING SONGS for FATHER'S KNEE
ROMANCES OF THE MIDDLE AGES
SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY
Selections From The Bible
Servian Story
SLEEPY-TIME SONGS AND STORIES
Some Children's Poets
Songs Of Life
STORIES BY FAVORITE AMERICAN WRITERS
STORIES FOR CHILDREN
STORIES for LITTLE BOYS
STORIES FROM BOTANY
STORIES FROM GREAT BRITAIN
STORIES FROM IRELAND
STORIES FROM PHYSICS
STORIES FROM SCANDINAVIA
STORIES FROM ZOOLOGY
STORIES _for_ LITTLE GIRLS
SUPERSITITIONS
THANKSGIVING DAY
The Argonauts
THE CANDLE
THE DAYS OF THE WEEK
THE DECEMBRISTS
The King Of The Golden River; Or, The Black Brothers
The Little Grey Mouse
THE OLD FAIRY TALES
The Princess Rosette
THE THREE HERMITS
THE TWO OLD MEN
Theseus
Traditional
UNCLES AND AUNTS AND OTHER RELATIVES
VERSES ABOUT FAIRIES
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY
WHAT MEN LIVE BY
WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO
|
WHY DID MAMMA CHANGE HER MIND?
from Cinderella The Little Glass Slipper
Mamma Miller told Fay and Lonnie that they might have a party,
so they tried to get ready for it. But the party was very
different to what they expected. It always happens so about
everything, if we pay no regard to one another's wishes.
Mrs. Miller said they might invite ten children.
"You write to five little girls, Fay," said she, "and Lonnie will
write to the five little boys."
So they went into the library. Lonnie sat down in papa's big
chair, while Fay climbed up on one arm, close beside him, and
they tried to think whom they would like to come to their party.
"Make out your list first," said Lonnie. Fay did, and her brother
agreed to all the girls. But as soon as Lonnie commenced writing
his names, Fay began to find fault.
"I don't like boys, anyway," said Fay, "only you, Lonnie. Let's
have all girls at our party."
"But it won't be my party," said Lonnie, "if you have all girls."
"I don't care, all those are horrid," pointing to his paper.
"You say that because you don't like boys." And then he told his
sister that every little fellow whose name he had written was
just as good as gold. And so they were just as good as Lonnie
Miller, and he was one of the best boys that ever lived, so
everybody said.
"I sha'n't play with him if he comes," Fay kept saying to every
name Lonnie wrote.
"You can have your party," said Lonnie, getting up out of the
easy-chair and sitting down in a smaller one, "you and your
girls. I'm going to learn some new pieces," taking up his little
silver blower.
"I don't like boys," Fay kept saying, jumping down off the arm of
the chair, and aiming a blow at the spot where her brother had
sat with the rustic stick their sister Lucia had brought home May
Day.
Lucia was passing the door just then, so she thought she would
see what all the noise was about.
"I'd better call you to lunch," said she, and there they were
just through breakfast.
Mamma herself came hurrying in at sound of the bell. When they
told her about the invitations, she said, "I shall not let you
have any party at all, now."
"What makes you change your mind?" said Fay.
"Mamma will give her little girl just one week to find out why
she has changed her mind," said Mrs. Miller.
And for all Fay's coaxing, she could not be persuaded to stay a
minute longer.
Next: CLARA'S "FUNERAL."
Previous: THE DOLLS AND THE OTHER DOLLS.
Viewed: 2371 |