Wishing-Stone Stories
Author: first_name: Thornton W.
last_name: Burgess
Language: English
Year: 1915

“Tommy scuffed his bare, brown feet in the grass … A scowl, a deep, dark, heavy scowl, had chased all merriment from his round, freckled face. It seemed as if the very freckles were trying to hide from it.  Tommy didn’t care. He said so. He said so right out loud. He didn’t care if all the world knew it. He wanted the world to know it. It was a horrid old world anyway…”
Soon, Tommy finds the “wishing stone.”  His wishes transform him into a mouse, and then a succession of animals of the forest g