Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Kajsa Anderson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Illustration] THE CUCKOO CLOCK SIXTH IMPRESSION "Stories All Children Love" A SET OF CHILDREN'S CLASSICS THAT SHOULD BE IN EVERY WINTER HOME AND SUMMER COTTAGE Cornelli By JOHANNA SPYRI Translated by ELISABETH P. STORK A Child's Garden of Verses By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The Little Lame Prince & OTHER STORIES By MISS MULOCK Gulliver's Travels By JONATHAN SWIFT The Water Babies By CHARLES KINGSLEY Pinocchio By C. COLLODI Robinson Crusoe By DANIEL DEFOE Heidi By JOHANNA SPYRI Translated by ELISABETH P. STORK The Cuckoo Clock By MRS. MOLESWORTH The Swiss Family Robinson Edited by G. E. MITTON The Princess and Curdie By GEORGE MACDONALD The Princess and the Goblin By GEORGE MACDONALD At the Back of the North Wind By GEORGE MACDONALD A Dog of Flanders By "OUIDA" Bimbi By "OUIDA" Mopsa, the Fairy By JEAN INGELOW The Chronicles of Fairyland By FERGUS HUME Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales _Each Volume Beautifully Illustrated in Color._ _Decorated Cloth. Other Books in This Set are in Preparation._ [Illustration: A LITTLE GIRL DANCED INTO THE ROOM _Page 107_] THE CUCKOO CLOCK BY MRS. MOLESWORTH _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY_ MARIA L. KIRK [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A. To MARY JOSEPHINE AND TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF HER BROTHER THOMAS GRINDAL BOTH FRIENDLY LITTLE CRITICS OF MY CHILDREN'S STORIES _Edinburgh, 1877_ CONTENTS THE CUCKOO CLOCK CHAPTER PAGE I. The Old House 11 II. _Im_patient Griselda 30 III. Obeying Orders 48 IV. The Country of the Nodding Mandarins 70 V. Pictures 95 VI. Rubbed the Wrong Way 120 VII. Butterfly-Land 140 VIII. Master Phil 163 IX. Up and Down the Chimney 184 X. The Other Side of the Moon 209 XI. "Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Good-bye!" 227 THE CASTLE IN THE LOUGH A Legend of Donegal 247 ILLUSTRATIONS A Little Girl Danced Into the Room _Frontispiece_ "Have You Got a Cuckoo in a Cage?" 19 She Could Not Help Very Softly Clapping Her Hands 51