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Title: The Cuckoo Clock

Author: Mrs. Molesworth

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THE CUCKOO CLOCK

by

MRS. MOLESWORTH

Author of "Herr Baby," "Carrots," "Grandmother Dear," etc.

Illustrated by Walter Crane

London:
MacMillan and Co.,
and New York.

1895

[Illustration: IT WAS A LITTLE BOAT.]

[Illustration]

TO

MARY JOSEPHINE,

AND TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF HER BROTHER,

THOMAS GRINDAL,

BOTH FRIENDLY LITTLE CRITICS OF
MY CHILDREN'S STORIES.

Edinburgh, 1877.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE OLD HOUSE

II. _IM_PATIENT GRISELDA

III. OBEYING ORDERS

IV. THE COUNTRY OF THE NODDING MANDARINS

V. PICTURES

VI. RUBBED THE WRONG WAY

VII. BUTTERFLY-LAND

VIII. MASTER PHIL

IX. UP AND DOWN THE CHIMNEY

X. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON

XI. "CUCKOO, CUCKOO, GOOD-BYE!"

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

"WHY WON'T YOU SPEAK TO ME?"

MANDARINS NODDING

"MY AUNTS MUST HAVE COME BACK!"

SHE LOOKED LIKE A FAIRY QUEEN

"WHERE ARE THAT CUCKOO?"

"TIRED! HOW COULD I BE TIRED, CUCKOO?"

IT WAS A LITTLE BOAT

CHAPTER I.

THE OLD HOUSE.

"Somewhat back from the village street
Stands the old-fashioned country seat."

Once upon a time in an old town, in an old street, there stood a very
old house. Such a house as you could hardly find nowadays, however you
searched, for it belonged to a gone-by time--a time now quite passed
away.

It stood in a street, but yet it was not like a town h