Story Flowers for Rainy Hours (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... a kind of milk that oozes out of a tree called the varnish-tree, and which answers the purpose perfectly of ordinary varnish, such as we in England have to make, instead of having it ready prepared for us. To tell you as much as I should like about these Japanese, would take a long time. The little you do know, however, has, it is to be hoped, made you feel that after all it was not a bad thing when that Portuguese vessel was wrecked on their coast. MOTHER'S STORY. EFORE I knew you.," said Rachel's mother one day to a little girl with grey eyes and long dark hair, who was busy tidying her toy cupboard, "I lived with your three cousins, Johnnie, and Robin, and Florence. "They are big now, and old, but they were little like you then, and Florence loved her dolls as much as you love yours. Well, one day their mother and I told them we meant to take them in a large ship over the water to the Isle of Man, where, as perhaps you know, the pussies have no tails. "Florence did not quite understand what it all meant, but she pretended to be highly delighted when she saw her brothers look so pleased, and ran and told her little friends that she was going over the sea and far away. "Well, when we had packed up all our things, we were taken in the train to the place from which the ships sail. But when we got there, the sea was so rough, and the wind blew so wildly, the sailors told us we could not go until the next day. So we had to stay there all night, and sleep at the inn. "The following day the sea was calmer, and the wind had abated a little, so we went and took our places with the other passengers on the ship. "The sun shone brightly, and we all thought what a pleasant trip we should have across the water. It seemed so much gran...