Ten-year-old Netty nurses the baby on the doorstep of a London court and longs for the country she saw once on a holiday-fund fortnight. Meade’s story of her temptation is joined by M. B. Manwell’s and Maggie Browne’s tales of the riotous Carew children and Kurus, King of the Cannibal Islands.
Three short stories from a handsome Nister gift book of the 1890s. Download the free EPUB.