The Old Castle and Other Stories

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Old Castle and Other Stories, by Anonymous This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Old Castle and Other Stories Author: Anonymous Release Date: May 2, 2007 [EBook #21278] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OLD CASTLE AND OTHER STORIES *** Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works in the International Children's Digital Library.) THE LONELY COTTAGE page 53 THE OLD CASTLE. AND Other Stories. LONDON: THOMAS NELSON AND SONS. EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK. 1881. Contents. THE OLD CASTLE, 7 GEORGE AND ALICK, 23 THE SIXPENNY CALICO, 42 A WESTMORELAND STORY, 51 [7]THE OLD CASTLE. ow pleasant the parlour looked on the evening of "Flaxy's" birthday. To be sure it was November, and the wind was setting the poor dying leaves in a miserable shiver with some dreadful story of an iceberg he had just been visiting. But what cared Dicky and Prue, or Dudley and Flaxy, or all the rest sitting cosily around that charming fire, which glowed as if some kind fairy had filled up the little black grate with carbuncles and rubies?