Very Short Stories And Verses For Children

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</SPAN></span></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2><SPAN name="WRITING_A_BOOK" id="WRITING_A_BOOK"></SPAN>WRITING A BOOK.</h2> <p>"Let us write a book," they said; "but what shall it be about?"</p> <p>"A fairy story," said the elder sister.</p> <p>"A book about kings and queens," said the other.</p> <p>"Oh, no," said the brother, "let's write about animals."</p> <p>"We will write about them all," they cried together. So they put the paper, and pens, and ink ready. The elder sister took up a fairy story and looked at it, and put it down again.</p> <p>"I have never known any fairies," she said, "except in books; but, of course, it would not do to put one book inside another&mdash;anyone could do that."</p> <p>"I shall not begin to-day," the little one said, "for I must know a few kings and queens before I write about them, or I may say something foolish."</p> <p>"I shall write about the pig, and the pony, and the white rabbit," said the brother; "but first I must think a bit. It would never do to write a book without thinking."</p> <p>Then the elder sister took up the fairy story again, to see how many things were left out, for those, she thought, would do to go into her book.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</SPAN></span> The little one said to herself, "Really, it is no good thinking about kings and queens until I have known some, so I must wait;" and while the brother was considering about the pig, and the pony, and the white rabbit, he fell asleep.</p> <p>So the book is not written yet, but when it is we shall know a great deal.</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />