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    Our Children Scenes from the Country and the Town
    Our Children Scenes from the Country and the Town
    Our Children Scenes from the Country and the Town
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    Our Children Scenes from the Country and the Town

    By Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel and Anatole France

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    Our Children Scenes from the Country and the Town

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      Our Children Scenes from the Country and the Town - Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Our Children, by Anatole France, Illustrated by Boutet de Monvel

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      Title: Our Children

      Scenes from the Country and the Town

      Author: Anatole France

      Release Date: May 5, 2009 [eBook #28695]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: UTF-8

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR CHILDREN***

      E-text prepared by

      the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      from digital material generously made available by

      Internet Archive/American Libraries

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      OUR CHILDREN

      OUR CHILDREN

      BY

      ANATOLE FRANCE

      Illustrations by

      Boutet de Monvel

      OUR CHILDREN

      Scenes from the Country and the Town

      BY

      ANATOLE FRANCE

      Illustrated in color and in pen and ink by

      BOUTET de MONVEL.

      NEW YORK

      DUFFIELD & COMPANY

      1923

      Copyright, 1917, by

      DUFFIELD & COMPANY

      Printed in U. S. A.

      CONTENTS

      FANNY 1

      THE FANCY DRESS PARTY 10

      THE SCHOOL 12

      MARY 14

      PAN-PIPES 16

      ROGER’S STABLE 18

      COURAGE 20

      CATHERINE’S DAY 22

      >

      THE LITTLE SEA DOGS 24

      OUR CHILDREN

      FANNY

      I

      Fanny started off early one morning, like little Red Riding Hood, to visit her grandmother, who lives quite at the other end of the village. But Fanny did not stop like Red Riding Hood to pick hazel nuts. She went straight on her way, and did not see any wolf.

      Even when quite a long way off, she could see her grandmother seated on her stone doorstep, the dear grandmother who smiled with her toothless mouth and opened her old arms thin as grape vines to welcome her little granddaughter. Fanny’s heart was filled with delight at the prospect of spending a whole day at her grandmother’s. And her grandmother, having no longer any cares or tasks, but living like a cricket near the fire, is happy too to see the little daughter of her son, a sweet reminder of her youth.

      They have many things to say to each other, for one of them is at the end of life’s voyage and the other is just setting out upon it.

      You grow bigger every day, Fanny, says her grandmother, and I am getting littler. Just look! I need hardly stoop to press my lips to your forehead. What difference does it make how old I am when I still have youth’s roses in your cheeks, Little Fanny.

      But Fanny is exploring for the hundredth

      time, with new joy, all the curious things

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