Produced by Alicia Williams, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her "Anne of Green Gables" books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and poetry. She published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty novels before her death in 1942. The Project Gutenberg collection of her short stories was gathered from numerous sources and is presented in chronological publishing order: Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 * * * * * Short Stories 1904 A Fortunate Mistake 1904 An Unpremeditated Ceremony 1904 At the Bay Shore Farm 1904 Elizabeth's Child 1904 Freda's Adopted Grave 1904 How Don Was Saved 1904 Miss Madeline's Proposal 1904 Miss Sally's Company 1904 Mrs. March's Revenge 1904 Nan 1904 Natty of Blue Point 1904 Penelope's Party Waist 1904 The Girl and the Wild Race 1904 The Promise of Lucy Ellen 1904 The Pursuit of the Ideal 1904 The Softening of Miss Cynthia 1904 Them Notorious Pigs 1904 Why Not Ask Miss Price? 1904 A Fortunate Mistake "Oh, dear! oh, dear!" fretted Nan Wallace, twisting herself about uneasily on the sofa in her pretty room. "I never thought before that the days could be so long as they are now." "Poor you!" said her sister Maude sympathetically. Maude was moving briskly about the room, putting it into the beautiful order that Mother insisted on. It was Nan's week to care for their room, but Nan had sprained her ankle three days ago and could do nothing but lie on the sofa ever since. And very tired of it, too, was wide-awake, active Nan. "And the picnic this afternoon, too!" she sighed. "I've looked forward to it all summer. And it's a perfect day--and I've got to stay here and nurse this foot."