ANNE’S TERRIBLE GOOD NATURE

OTHER BOOKS FOR CHILDREN BY THE SAME AUTHOR

A BOOK OF VERSES FOR CHILDREN

ANOTHER BOOK OF VERSES FOR CHILDREN

THE FLAMP

THE AMELIORATOR

THE SCHOOLBOY’S APPRENTICE

OLD-FASHIONED TALES

FORGOTTEN TALES OF LONG AGO

THREE HUNDRED GAMES AND PASTIMES

RUNAWAYS AND CASTAWAYS

THE “ORIGINAL POEMS” OF ANN AND JANE TAYLOR

THE SLOW-COACH: A Story. Illustrated in Colour by M. V. Wheelhouse

A CAT BOOK. Illustrated by Pat Sullivan

TO THE OLD WOMAN’S INTENSE ASTONISHMENT, SHE GAVE HER ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR OF HER THREEPENNY BITS. [p. 42

ANNE’S TERRIBLE GOOD NATURE

AND OTHER STORIES FOR CHILDREN

BY E. V. LUCAS

WITH 12 ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. H. BUCKLAND

NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

First published, August 1908; Reprinted December 1908, July 1911, March 1915, December 1919, June 1923, December 1924, and January 1928.

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

PREFACE

Of the eleven stories in this book, seven now appear for the first time. For permission to reprint “Sir Franklin and the Little Mothers,” I have to thank Messrs. Bradbury, Agnew & Co.; and Messrs. George Allen & Sons allow me to include “The Miss Bannisters’ Brother.” “The Monkey’s Revenge” was printed first in Messrs. Dent’s Christmas Treasury, and “The Anti-burglars” in The Woman at Home for December 1902. The motive of the title story was given to me by Mrs. Charles Bryant, and that of “The Ring of Fortitude” by Mrs. W. M. Meredith. The suggestion as to organs and street cries in “The Notice-Board” was made to me by Oxford’s Professor of Poetry. The autobiographies of coins, I might add, are a commonplace in old books for children; but one is at liberty, I think, to adapt the idea to one’s own time without being guilty of very serious want of originality.

E. V. L.

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ANNE’S TERRIBLE GOOD NATURE

ANNE’S TERRIBLE GOOD NATURE

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Anne Wilbraham Bayes, Wilbraham being after her grandfather on the mother’s side, a very clever gentleman living at Great Malvern, and writing books on Roman history, who has, however, nothing whatever to do with this story. This story is about Anne and her perfectly appalling good nature.