A WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS

By Nathaniel Hawthorne


THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER



CONTENTS:

THE HILLSIDE.--Introductory to "The Miraculous Pitcher"
THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER
THE HILLSIDE--After the Story



INTRODUCTORY TO "THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER"

And when, and where, do you think we find the children next? No longer
in the winter-time, but in the merry month of May. No longer in
Tauglewood play-room, or at Tanglewood fireside, but more than half-way
up a monstrous hill, or a mountain, as perhaps it would be better
pleased to have us call it. They had set out from home with the mighty
purpose of climbing this high hill, even to the very tiptop of its bald
head. To be sure, it was not quite so high as Chimborazo, or Mont
Blanc, and was even a good deal lower than old Graylock. But, at any
rate, it was higher than a thousand ant-hillocks, or a million of mole
hills; and, when measured by the short strides of little children, might
be reckoned a very respectable mountain.