Anyhow stories for children
By: by Mrs. W.K. Clifford ; with illustrations by Dorothy Tennant
Contributors: Stanley, Dorothy, Lady, d. 1926
Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
Published: 1885
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Mothers; Juvenile fiction; Children's stories; Children's poetry
Description: The new mother: A naughty brother and sister are told by their mother that to punish them she will go away forever, and will send home a new mother with glass eyes and a wooden tail. She carries out her threat, and the children run away from their home at the sound of the new mother's approach--they can hear her wooden tail being dragged along the floor.
Notes: Several pieces in verse.

Osborne catalogue, I:331
Table of contents: title: I. The cobbler's children; title: II. The new mother; title: III. Round the rabbit holes; title: IV. The three little ragamuffins; title: V. From outside the world; title: VI. The paper ship; title: VII. The baby's legs; title: VIII. The imitation fish; title: IX. Buttercup queen; title: X. The beautiful lady; title: XI. The story of Willie and Fancy; title: XII. In the porch; title: XII. Lullaby.