Little Lucys Wonderful Globe

Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

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LITTLE LUCY'S WONDERFUL GLOBE
by Charlotte M. Yonge

"Young fingers idly roll The mimic earth or trace In picture bright of
blue and gold Each other circling chase"--KEBLE

CONTENTS.

Chapter I
. Mother Bunch.

Chapter II
. Visitors from the South Seas.

Chapter III
. Italy.

Chapter IV
. Greenland.

Chapter V
. Tyrol.

Chapter VI
. Africa.

Chapter VII
. Laplanders.

Chapter VIII
. China.

Chapter IX
. Kamschatka.

Chapter X
. The Turk.

Chapter XI
. Switzerland.

Chapter XII
. The Cossack.

Chapter XIII
. Spain.

Chapter XIV
. Germany.

Chapter XV
. Paris in the Siege.

Chapter XVI
. The American Guest.

Chapter XVII
. The Dream of all Nations.

LITTLE LUCY'S WONDERFUL GLOBE


CHAPTER I
. MOTHER BUNCH.
There was once a wonderful fortnight in little Lucy's life. One evening
she went to bed very tired and cross and hot, and in the morning when
she looked at her arms and legs they were all covered with red spots,
rather pretty to look at, only they were dry and prickly.
Nurse was frightened when she looked at them. She turned all the little
sisters out of the night nursery, covered Lucy up close, and ordered her
not to stir, certainly not to go into her bath. Then there was a
whispering and a running about, and Lucy was half alarmed, but more
pleased at being so important, for she did not feel at all ill, and quite
enjoyed the tea and toast that Nurse brought up to her. Just as she was
beginning to think it rather tiresome to lie there with nothing to do,
except to watch the flies buzzing about, there was a step on the stairs
and up came the doctor. He was an old friend, very good-natured, and

he made fun with Lucy about having turned into a spotted leopard, just
like the cowry shell on Mrs. Bunker's mantel-piece. Indeed, he said he
thought she was such a curiosity that Mrs. Bunker would come for her
and set her up in the museum, and then he went away. Suppose, oh,
suppose she did!
Mrs. Bunker, or Mother Bunch, as Lucy and her brothers and sisters
called her, was housekeeper to their Uncle Joseph. He was really their
great uncle, and they thought him any age you can imagine. They
would not have been much surprised to hear that he sailed with
Christopher Columbus, though he was a strong, hale, active man, much
less easily tired than their own papa. He had been a ship's surgeon in
his younger days, and had sailed all over the world, and collected all
sorts of curious things, besides which he was a very wise and learned
man, and had made some great discovery. It was not America. Lucy
knew that her elderly brother understood what it was, but it was not
worth troubling her head about, only somehow it made ships go safer,
and so he had had a pension given him as a reward. He had come home
and bought a house about a mile out of town, and built up a high room
from which to look at the stars with his telescope, and to try his
experiments in, and a long one besides for his museum; yet, after all, he
was not