"I don't know," Kate said, pulling hard at her shoe button. "As people, other people, living in a house who. "Are there such things?" she asked after a moment. May, and in the half light she seemed to smile. May lightly, "don't say they're in this house too!" "Yes," said Kate, "but I looked on the floor. May, her own needle flicking steadily in the firelight. "I know where I put it," she went on hastily "I put it on the bottom shelf of the bookcase just beside my bed." "No," said Kate, pulling at her shoe button, "I've lost the crochet hook." They were making a bed-quilt-in woolen squares: there were thirty still to do.
May one day, when Kate sat hunched and silent upon the hassock.
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May taught her many things besides crochet: how to wind wool into an egg-shaped ball how to run-and-fell and plan a darn how to tidy a drawer and to lay, like a blessing, above the contents, a sheet of rustling tissue against the dust. May, nor untidy, nor self-willed and Mrs. May was old, her joints were stiff, and she was-not strict exactly, but she had that inner certainty which does instead. Her bedroom was on the first floor, and her sitting room was a room which, as part of the house, was called "the breakfast-room." Now breakfast-rooms are all right in the morning when the sun streams in on the toast and marmalade, but by afternoon they seem to vanish a little and to fill with a strange silvery light, their own twilight there is a kind of sadness in them then, but child it was a sadness Kate liked. May lived in two rooms in Kate's parents' house in London she was, I think, some kind of relation. Not that the name matters much either way: she barely comes into the story. How could it have been me-a wild, untidy, self-willed little girl who stared with angry eyes and was said to crunch her teeth? Kate, she should have been called. Printed in the United States of America OO QQ RR PP L N P Q O M (pb) " An Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic " Summary: Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Norton, Mary. Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be submitted online at /contact or mailed to the following address: Permissions Department, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777.įirst Harcourt Young Classics edition 1998 First Odyssey Classics edition 1990 First published 1953 No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. ORLANDO AUSTIN NEW YORK SAN DIEGO LONDONĬopyright 1953, 1952 by Mary Norton Copyright renewed 1981 by Mary Norton, Beth Krush and Joe Krush Copyright renewed 1981, 1980 by Mary NortonĪll rights reserved. AN ODYSSEY/HARCOURT YOUNG CLASSIC HARCOURT, INC.
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