Bliss, and Other Stories

of the kitchen window sill and a piece of flannel stained with a blue bag in another. The fireplace was choked up with rubbish. She poked among it but found nothing except a hair-tidy with a heart p

. Now it was still, now it began to flutter again, and now it came almost as far as her feet. Zoom! Zoom!

arum lilies growing at the gate, and then at a yellow lawn with yellow lilies and a yellow fence. As she looked a little Chinese Lottie came out on to the lawn and

she found a pill box black and shiny outsid

bird's egg in th

ck some beads and a long needle. She knew there was nothing in her grandmother's room; she had watch

dark crept the wind snuffling and howling. The windows of the empty house shook, a creaking came from the walls and floors, a piece of loose iron on the roof banged forlornly. Kezia was suddenly quite, quite still, with wide open eyes and knees pressed together. She was frightened. She wante

nd three horses, Kezia. Mrs. Samuel Josephs has given us a big shawl to wear roun

as very

er their arms and up they swung. Lottie arranged the shawl "most beauti

. Easy d

felt over the cords holding his load, unhooked the brakech

"because otherwise you pull the

towered beside her big as a giant and h