But the real adventure happens when Edward and Gustus set about making their families’ fortune by turning a handful of pocket change into a “mixed mine.” The things you look at through the telescope, actually grow larger-or, if you look through the wrong end of the telescope, they shrink. “The Mixed Mine” brings together two boys from opposite sides of the tracks-well-to-do Edward and desperately poor Gustus-when a magic spyglass washes ashore after a shipwreck. It turns out to be an experience neither of them would ever want to repeat, but it does teach Maurice some lessons about being kind to cats, and his sister too. And Lord Hugh decides to teach Maurice a lesson of his own, by trading places with him for a week. In “The Cat-hood of Maurice,” a little boy about to be punished for playing a cruel prank on the family cat, Lord Hugh, discovers that Lord Hugh can talk. And almost every one of the stories is as full of fun and magic for today’s children as it was nearly a century ago. It contains twelve stories that combine classic fairy-tale elements with modern concepts in a deliciously witty way. This collection of delightful modern fairy tales dates from 1912, when Edith Nesbit was already well-established as the godmother of children’s literature.
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