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Title: Penelope and the Others
Story of Five Country Children

Author: Amy Walton

Illustrator: L. Leslie Brooke

Release Date: April 27, 2007 [EBook #21231]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Penelope and the Others; or, A Story of Five Country Children

By Amy Walton
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This is another story by Amy Walton about life in the English
countryside towards the end of the nineteenth century. It is a
sequel to "The Hawthorns", except that, for some reason, the
name has become "Hawthorne".

On the whole the principal dramatis personae, the Hawthorne
household, are unchanged. The additions are Miss Barnicroft, an
eccentric old lady from the village; Kettles, an impoverished
child from Nearminster, the cathedral city close by; Dr Budge,
a learned old man in the village, who takes on the grounding of
one of the boys in Latin; Mrs Margetts, who had spent her life
in the Hawthorne family's employment as a children's nurse; the
Dean of the Cathedral and his family, particularly Sabine, who
is the same age as Pennie; and Dr Budge's pet Jackdaw.

There is no reason why a child of today should not read this
story and profit by it. They will perhaps be surprised to find
how much more civilised life was a hundred years ago and more,
than it is today. NH
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PENELOPE AND THE OTHERS; A STORY OF FIVE COUNTRY CHILDREN

BY AMY WALTON

CHAPTER ONE.

PENELOPE'S PLAN.

Penelope Hawthorne sat in the school-room window-seat at Easney
Vicarage, one afternoon, looking very gravely out at the garden.

She had sat there for some time, with her hands in her lap and a little
troubled frown on her forehead, and anyone who knew her well would have
guessed at once that she was thinking over a "plan."

Penelope was just thirteen years old, the eldest of the Hawthorne
children, and as she was a thoughtful girl and fond of reading, she
often