Dream Days | by Kenneth Grahame
Contains a collection of short stories.
| Title | Dream Days |
| Author | Kenneth Grahame |
| Publisher | John Lane Company |
| Year | 1898 |
| Copyright | 1898, John Lane |
| Amazon | Dream days |
By Kenneth Grahame, editor of the book Pagan Papers The Golden Age The Headswoman.
The Twenty-First Of October- IN the matter of general culture and attainments, we youngsters stood o\ pretty level ground. True, it was always happening that one of us would be singled out at any moment, freakishly, and without r...
- The Twenty-First Of October. Part 2
- October was mellowing fast, and with it the year itself; full of tender hints, in woodland and hedgerow, of a course well-nigh completed. From all sides that still afternoon you caught the quick breat...
- The Twenty-First Of October. Part 3
- The leaves were well alight by this time, and Harold had just added an old furze bush, which flamed and crackled stirringly. Go 'n' get some more sticks, ordered Selina, and shavings, 'n' chun...
- Dies Irae
- THOSE memorable days that move in procession, their heads just out of the mist of years long dead - the most of them are full-eyed as the dandelion that from dawn to shade has steeped itself in sunlig...
- Dies Irae. Part 2
- Things were getting simply infernal. I struck out blindly for the open country; and even as I made for the gate a shrill voice from a window bade me keep off the flower-beds. When the gate had swung t...
- Dies Irae. Part 3
- On this particular morning I was in much too unsociable a mind for paying friendly calls. Still, something in the aspect of the place harmonised with my humour, and I worked my way round to the back, ...
- Mutabile Semper
- SHE stood on the other side of the garden fence, and regarded me gravely as I came down the road. Then she said, Hi-o! and I responded, Hullo! and pulled up somewhat nervously. To tell the ...
- Mutabile Semper. Part 2
- Of course we 'll do just what you like, I said hospitably; but already I was beginning to feel my liberty of action somewhat curtailed by this exigent visitor I had so rashly admitted into my sanct...
- Mutabile Semper. Part 3
- Selina had a fit of the fidgets, bred of the unpromising weather, and, instead of settling down to something on her own account, must needs walk round and annoy us artists, intent on embodying our con...
- The Magic Ring
- GROWN-UP people really ought to be more careful. Among themselves it may seem but a small thing to give their word and take back their word. For them there are so many compensations. Life lies at thei...
- The Magic Ring. Part 2
- To nature, as usual, I drifted by instinct, and there, out of the track of humanity, under a friendly hedge-row had my black hour unseen. The world was a globe no longer, space was no more filled with...
- The Magic Ring. Part 3
- We called him the funny man because he was sad and serious, and said little, but gazed right into our souls, and made us tell him just what was on our minds at the time, and then came out with some ma...
- Its Walls Were As Of Jasper
- IN the long winter evenings, when we had the picture-books out on the floor, and sprawled together over them with elbows deep in the hearth-rug, the first business to be gone through was the process o...
- Its Walls Were As Of Jasper. Part 2
- When Edward went off to school a great deal of adjustment and re-allotment took place, and all the heroes of illustrated literature were at my call, did I choose to possess them. In this particular ca...
- Its Walls Were As Of Jasper. Part 3
- This was altogether a more sensible sort of room that I had got into; for the walls were honestly upholstered with books, though these for the most part glimmered provokingly through the glass doors o...
- Its Walls Were As Of Jasper. Part 4
- Well, no doubt they were now being married, He and She, just as always happened. And then, of course, they were going to live happily ever after; and that was the part I wanted to get to. Storybooks w...
- A Saga Of The Seas
- IT happened one day that some ladies came to call, who were not at all the sort I was used to. They suffered from a grievance, so far as I could gather, and the burden of their plaint was Man - Men in...
- A Saga Of The Seas. Part 2
- This was easy enough. A friend or two of my own age, from among the boys I knew; a friend or two from characters in the books I knew; and a friend or two from No-man's-land, where every fellow's a bor...
- A Saga Of The Seas. Part 3
- As soon as we had got through with the necessary throat-cutting and swabbing-up all hands set to work to discover treasure; and soon the deck shone bravely with ingots and Mexican dollars and church p...
- A Saga Of The Seas. Part 4
- The bo'sun had taken part in so many cuttings-out during his past career that practically he did all the talking, and was the Council of War himself. It was to be an affair of boats, he explained. A b...
- The Reluctant Dragon
- FOOTPRINTS in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours. In a poetry-book presented to one of us by an aunt, ther...
- The Reluctant Dragon. Part 2
- The striking of six o'clock set the more prudent Charlotte nudging me, and we recalled ourselves with an effort from Beast-land, and reluctantly stood up to go. Here, I'm coming along with you, ...
- The Reluctant Dragon. Part 3
- Next day, after he'd had his tea, the Boy strolled up the chalky track that led to the summit of the Downs; and there, sure enough, he found the dragon, stretched lazily on the sward in front of his c...
- The Reluctant Dragon. Part 4
- Oh, dear ! cried the boy, I wish you'd try and grasp the situation properly. When the other people find you out, they 'll come after you with spears and swords and all sorts of things. You 'll ha...
- The Reluctant Dragon. Part 5
- Don't be violent, Boy, he said without looking round. Sit down and get your breath, and try and remember that the noun governs the verb, and then perhaps you'll be good enough to tell me who's com...
- The Reluctant Dragon. Part 6
- Six to four on the dragon! murmured St. George sadly, resting his cheek on his hand. This is an evil world, and sometimes I begin to think that all the wickedness in it is not entirely bottled up...
- The Reluctant Dragon. Part 7
- Yes, but are you sure you can hit off the right place ? asked the dragon, anxiously. Of course I am, said St. George, with confidence. You leave that to me ! It's just because I Ve ...
- The Reluctant Dragon. Part 8
- St. George lowered his spear, bent his head, dug his heels into his horse's sides, and came thundering over the turf. The dragon charged with a roar and a squeal, - a great blue whirling combination o...
- The Reluctant Dragon. Part 9
- There were great doings when they got down to the village again, and had formed up in front of the inn. After refreshment St. George made a speech, in which he informed his audience that he had remove...
- A Departure
- IT is a very fine thing to be a real Prince. There are points about a Pirate Chief, and to succeed to the Captaincy of a Robber Band is a truly magnificent thing. But to be an Heir has also about it s...
- A Departure. Part 2
- Naturally enough, perhaps, we others received no official intimation of this grave cession of territory. We were not supposed to be interested. Harold had long ago been promoted to a knife - a recogni...
- A Departure. Part 3
- However, it was no business of mine. If grievances were the question, I had n't a leg to stand upon. Though my catapults were officially confiscated, I knew the drawer in which they were incarcerated,...
