Adventures of a Brownie follows the life of a brownie who lives in a family's coal cellar and the adventures he gets into with the members of the household.
ther! Now for the
cherries and the children—bless us, where are the children? And
the cherries? Why, the tree is as bare as a blackthorn in February!
The starlings have been at it, after all. Oh dear! oh dear!"[25]
"Oh dear! oh dear!" echoed a voice from behind the tree, followed
by shouts of mocking laughter. Not from the children—they sat
as demure as possible, all in a ring, with their hands before them,
and in the centre the huge basket of cherries, piled as full as it could
possibly hold. But the Brownie had disappeared.
"You naughty brats, I'll have you punished!" cried the Gardener,
furious at the laughter, for he never laughed himself. But as there
was nothing wrong; the cherries being gathered—a very large crop—and
the ladder found safe in its place—it was difficult to say what
had been the harm done and who had done it.
So he went growling back to the house, carrying the cherries to
the mistress, who coaxed him into good temper again, as she sometimes
did; bidding also the children to behave well to him, since
he was an old man, and not really bad—only cross. As for the
little folks, she had not the slightest intention of punishing them;
and, as for Brownie, it was impossible to catch him. So nobody
was punished at all.
My edition is actually 1930, with a slightly different cover, but as always, the content is more important. A charming, sort of weird group of tales of a brownie, who looked like a little old brown man and lived in the coal cellar of a house in the country. Only children could see him. He could get
Lynn
05/09/2020
This is an entertaining children's story about a little Brownie who lived in the coal cellar of a house. The reader will enjoy his antics told in six adventures. Brownie and the Cook Brownie and the Cherry-tree Brownie in the Farmyard Brownie's Ride Brownie on the Ice Brownie and the Clothes
Christy
11/02/2013
These stories are wonderful for young children. They really enjoy listening to them being read aloud.
Shawn
07/16/2013
The Adventures of a Brownie is sort of a proto-Nesbit; a book like this eventually evolved into Nesbit's Five Children and It which evolved into The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobewhich eventually becomes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (with some stops and diversions along the way). Brownie
Aine
11/17/2012
Fun stories. Very cute.
JoAnn
03/25/2011
I am reading a very old edition, undated, published by the Mershon Company. I found this copy of the book at our library's bookstore and was chuckling at the author's humor on the first page, so I had to get it. It was a quick, pleasant read and was an interesting look at life at the turn of the prev
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