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THE ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE AS TOLD TO MY CHILD.
By Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
THE AUTHOR OF "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN," LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, LOW, AND SEARLE, CROWN BUILDINGS, FLEET STREET.
1872.
CHISWICK PRESS:--PRINTED BY WHITTINGHAM AND WILKINS, TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE.
CONTENTS.
ADVENTURE THE FIRST. Brownie and the Cook
ADVENTURE THE SECOND. Brownie and the Cherry-tree
ADVENTURE THE THIRD. Brownie in the Farmyard
ADVENTURE THE FOURTH. Brownie's Ride
ADVENTURE THE FIFTH. Brownie on the Ice
ADVENTURE THE SIXTH AND LAST. Brownie and the Clothes
ADVENTURE THE FIRST.
BROWNIE AND THE COOK.
THERE once was a little Brownie who lived--where do you think he lived?--In a coal-cellar.
Now a coal-cellar may seem a most curious place to choose to live in; but then a Brownie is a curious creature--a fairy, and yet not one of that sort of fairies who fly about on gossamer wings, and dance in the moonlight, and so on. He never dances; and as to wings, what use would they be to him in a coal-cellar? He is a sober, stay-at-home household elf--nothing much to look at, even if you did see him, which you are not likely to do--only a little old man, about a foot high, all dressed in brown, with a brown face and hands, and a brown peaked cap, just the colour of a brown mouse. And like a mouse he hides in corners--especially kitchen corners, and only comes out after dark when nobody is about, and so sometimes people call him Mr. Nobody.
I said you were not likely to see him. I never did, certainly, and never knew anybody that did; but still, if you were