[Illustration] THE ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE AS TOLD TO MY CHILD BY MISS MULOCK [Illustration] ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS COPYRIGHTED--1908--BY McLOUGHLIN BROS. CONTENTS ADVENTURE THE FIRST Brownie and the Cook 5 ADVENTURE THE SECOND Brownie and the Cherry-tree 17 ADVENTURE THE THIRD Brownie in the Farmyard 26 ADVENTURE THE FOURTH Brownie's Ride 41 ADVENTURE THE FIFTH Brownie on the Ice 58 ADVENTURE THE SIXTH AND LAST Brownie and the Clothes 73 POEMS The Blackbird and the Rooks 88 The Shaking of the Pear-tree 91 The Wonderful Apple-tree 95 The Jealous Boy 98 The Story of the Birkenhead 99 Birds in the Snow 105 The Little Comforter 107 Don't Be Afraid 108 Girl and Boy 109 Agnes at Prayer 110 Going to Work 111 Three Companions 112 The Motherless Child 113 The Wren's Nest 115 A Child's Smile 116 Over the Hills and Far Away 118 The Two Raindrops 119 The Year's End 120 Running After the Rainbow 121 Dick and I 123 Grandpapa 124 Monsieur et Mademoiselle 125 Young Dandelion 127 A September Robin 128 [Illustration] THE ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE ADVENTURE THE FIRST BROWNIE AND THE COOK THERE was once a little Brownie, who lived--where do you think he lived? in a coal-cellar. Now a coal-cellar may seem a most curious place to choose to live in; but then a Brownie is a curious creature--a fairy, and yet not one of that sort of fairies who fly about on gossamer wings, and dance in the moonlight, and so on. He never dances; and as to wings, what use would they be to him in a coal-cellar? He is a sober, stay-at-home, household elf--nothing much to look at, even if you did see him, which you are not likely to do--only a little old man, about a foot high, all dressed in brown, with a brown face and hands, and a brown peaked cap, just the color of a brown mouse. And, like a mouse, he hides in corners--especially kitchen corners, and only comes out after dark when nobody is about, and so sometimes people call him Mr. Nobody.