The Magician's Show Box : And Other Stories

By Child, Lydia Maria

Book Id: WPLBN0000632269
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Magician's Show Box : And Other Stories
Author:	Child, Lydia Maria
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: THE MAGICIAN?S SHOW BOX. There was once a boy, named Gaspar, whose uncle made voyages to China, and brought him home chessmen, queer toys, porcelain vases, embroidered skullcaps, and all kinds of fine things. He gave him such grand descriptions of foreign countries and costumes, that Gaspar was not at all satisfied to live in a small village, where the people dressed in the most commonplace way. At school he was always covering his slate with pictures of Turks wearing turbans as large as small mosques, or Chinese with queues several yards long, and shoes that turned up to their knees. Then he read every story he could find of all possible and impossible adventures, and longed for nothing so much as to go forth, like Napoleon or Alexander, and make mincemeat of the whole world.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories, 1 -- Lydia Maria Child, 1 -- THE MAGICIAN'S SHOW BOX, 1 -- THE VIOLET FLAME, 7 -- FLORIBEL, 11 -- THE LADY INTELLETTA, 17 -- VENUS'S DOVE, 26 -- THE GALA DAY, 28 -- Scene 1. A Garden; Children dressed as Fairies, playing about. They join hands in a dance, 28 -- Scene 2. Outside the Garden Gate. LISA alone, 30 -- Scene 3. Same as 1st Scene. Garden, and Children dancing and singing, 35 -- Scene 4. A Lonely Road; LISA crying. EDWARD enters, 38 -- Scene 6. Garden, as before. MRS. LANDOR, EDITH, FANNY, LISA, EDWARD, and -- Children, 41 -- EARNING ONE'S OWN LIVING, 42