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Title: Stories of Childhood

Author: Various

Editor: Rossiter Johnson

Release Date: May 29, 2005 [EBook #15933]

Language: English

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Produced by Ron Swanson

LITTLE CLASSICS
EDITED BY
ROSSITER JOHNSON

STORIES OF CHILDHOOD

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

1914

COPYRIGHT, 1875, BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & Co.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS.

A DOG OF FLANDERS . . . . . . . . . . _Louisa de la Rame (Ouida)_

THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER . . . . . _John Ruskin_

THE LADY OF SHALOTT . . . . . . . . . _Elizabeth Stuart Phelps_

MARJORIE FLEMING . . . . . . . . . . . _John Brown, M.D._

LITTLE JAKEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Mrs. S.H. DeKroyft_

THE LOST CHILD . . . . . . . . . . . . _Henry Kingsley_

GOODY GRACIOUS! AND THE FORGET-ME-NOT _John Neal_

A FADED LEAF OF HISTORY . . . . . . . _Rebecca Harding Davis_

A CHILD'S DREAM OF A STAR . . . . . . _Charles Dickens_

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

A DOG OF FLANDERS.

BY OUIDA

Nello and Patrasche were left all alone in the world.

They were friends in a friendship closer than brotherhood. Nello was a
little Ardennois,--Patrasche was a big Fleming. They were both of the
same age by length of years, yet one was still young, and the other was
already old. They had dwelt together almost all their days; both were
orphaned and destitute, and owed their lives to the same hand. It had
been the beginning of the tie between them, their first bond of
sympathy; and it had strengthened day by day, and had grown with their
growth, firm and indissoluble, until they loved one another very greatly.

Their home was a little hut on the edge of a little village,--a Flemish
village a league from Antwerp, set amidst flat breadths of pasture and
corn-lands, with long lines of poplars and of alders bending in the
breeze on the edge of the great canal which ran through it. It had about
a score of houses and homesteads, with shutters of bright gre