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Nine Unlikely Tales
MATILDAS ears were red and shiny. So were her cheeks. Her hands were red too. This was because Pridmore had washed her. It was not the usual washing, which makes you clean and comfortable, but the thorough good wash, which makes you burn and smart till you wish you could be like the poor little savages who do not know anything, and run about bare in the sun, and only go into the water when they are hot. Pridmore was Matildas nursemaid. Matilda sometimes found her trying. Matilda was quite right in believing that savage children do not wear frocks that hurt. It is also true that savage children are not over-washed, over-brushed, over-combed, gloved, booted, and hatted and taken in an omnibus to Streatham to see their Great-aunt Willoughby. This was intended to be Matildas fate. Her mother had arranged it. Pridmore had prepared her for it. Matilda, knowing resistance to be vain, had submitted to it. When the last button of Matildas boots had been fastened (the button-hook always had a nasty temper, especially when it was hurried, and that day it bit a little piece of Matildas leg quite spitefully) the wretched child was taken downstairs and put on a chair in the hall to wait while Pridmore popped her own things on. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 49913
Author: Nesbit, E. (Edith)
Release Date: Sep 9, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English
Illustrator: Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert), 1869-1942 , Shepperson, Claude A. (Claude Allin), 1867-1921
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