A Gallery of Children

A collection of short stories written by Mine.

1. A voyage to India
2. Barbara's birthday
3. Castles by the sea.
4. Miss Waterlow in bed
5. Poor Anne
6. Sand babies
7. Sparrow Tree Square
8. The baby show
9. The Magic Hill
10. The three daughters of M. Dupont
11. The twins
12. The Princess and the apple tree

WE will take the lady in green first. Her name is Diana Fitzpatrick Mauleverer James. She is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Fitzpatrick Mauleverer James, who live at Number 27. Mrs. F. M. James wanted a boy, so that he could support them in their old age; but Mr. F. M. James said loftily: “No F. M. James, my dear, was ever any good at supporting. Where the F. M. Jameses shine is at being supported. Let it be a girl, and let her marry some very rich man when she grows up. It shall be his proud privilege to tend the last of the F. M. James’s in their middle-age.” So it was a girl.