By | JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE | Peter and Wendy | Chapter II | The Shadow | Mrs. Darling screamed, and, as if in answer to a bell, the door opened, and Nana entered, returned from her evening out. She growled and sprang at the boy, who leapt lightly through the…
By | JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE | Peter and Wendy | Chapter I | Peter Breaks Through | All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in…
By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter XXIV | Home Again | Aunt Em had just come out of the house to water the cabbages when she looked up and saw Dorothy running toward her. “My darling child!” she cried, folding the little girl…
By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter XXIII | Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish | Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the…
By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter XXII | The Country Of The Quadlings | The four travelers passed through the rest of the forest in safety, and when they came out from its gloom saw before them a steep hill, covered from top…
By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter XXI | The Lion Becomes The King of Beasts | After climbing down from the china wall the travelers found themselves in a disagreeable country, full of bogs and marshes and covered with tall, rank grass. It…
By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter XX | The Dainty China Country | While the Woodman was making a ladder from wood which he found in the forest Dorothy lay down and slept, for she was tired by the long walk. The Lion…
By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter XIX | Attacked By The Fighting Trees | The next morning Dorothy kissed the pretty green girl good-bye, and they all shook hands with the soldier with the green whiskers, who had walked with them as far…
By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter XVIII | Away To The South | Dorothy wept bitterly at the passing of her hope to get home to Kansas again; but when she thought it all over she was glad she had not gone up…
By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter XVII | How The Balloon Was Launched | For three days Dorothy heard nothing from Oz. These were sad days for the little girl, although her friends were all quite happy and contented. The Scarecrow told them…