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  A DOG OF FLANDERS
  THE NÜRNBERG STOVE
  AND OTHER STORIES


  ELEVENTH IMPRESSION




“Stories All Children Love”

A SET OF CHILDREN’S CLASSICS THAT SHOULD BE IN EVERY WINTER HOME AND
SUMMER COTTAGE

  Mäzli
  BY JOHANNA SPYRI
  Translated by ELISABETH P. STORK

  Cornelli
  BY JOHANNA SPYRI
  Translated by ELISABETH P. STORK

  A Child’s Garden of Verses
  BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

  The Little Lame Prince and Other Stories
  BY MISS MULOCK

  Gulliver’s Travels
  BY JONATHAN SWIFT

  The Water Babies
  BY CHARLES KINGSLEY

  Pinocchio
  BY C. COLLODI

  Robinson Crusoe
  BY DANIEL DEFOE

  Heidi BY JOHANNA SPYRI
  Translated by ELISABETH P. STORK

  The Cuckoo Clock
  BY MRS. MOLESWORTH

  The Swiss Family Robinson
  EDITED BY G. E. MITTON

  The Princess and Curdie
  BY GEORGE MACDONALD

  The Princess and the Goblin
  BY GEORGE MACDONALD

  At the Back of the North Wind
  BY GEORGE MACDONALD

  A Dog of Flanders BY “OUIDA”

  Bimbi BY “OUIDA”

  Mopsa, the Fairy BY JEAN INGELOW

  Tales of Fairyland
  BY FERGUS HUME

  Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales


  _Each Volume Beautifully Illustrated in Color.   Decorated Cloth.
  Other Books in This Set are in Preparation._

[Illustration: THEN LITTLE NELLO TOOK HIS PLACE BESIDE THE CART]




  A DOG OF FLANDERS
  THE NÜRNBERG STOVE
  AND OTHER STORIES

  BY
  LOUISA DE LA RAMÉ
  (OUIDA)

  _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY_
  MARIA L. KIRK

[Illustration]

  PHILADELPHIA
  J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY




  COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY


  _Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company
  The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A._




CONTENTS


                           PAGE
  A DOG OF FLANDERS           9
  THE NÜRNBERG STOVE         61
  IN THE APPLE-COUNTRY      131
  THE LITTLE EARL           171




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                              PAGE

  THEN LITTLE NELLO TOOK HIS PLACE BESIDE THE CART   _Frontispiece_

  NELLO DREW THEIR LIKENESS WITH A STICK OF CHARCOAL            31

  “IT IS A SIN; IT IS A THEFT; IT IS AN INFAMY,” HE SAID        83

  AUGUST OPENED THE WINDOW, CRAMMED THE SNOW INTO HIS
      MOUTH AGAIN AND AGAIN                                     98

  “LET US REST A LITTLE AND EAT”                               133

  SHE ONLY RAN ON, STUMBLING OFTEN AND FEELING FOR THE
      MATCHES IN THE BOSOM OF HER UGLY GRAY COTTON FROCK       159

  “LITTLE GIRL, WHY DO YOU CRY?” HE SAID                       196

  HE SHARED IT WILLINGLY                                       221




A DOG OF FLANDERS




A STORY OF NOËL.


NELLO and Patrasche were left all alone in the world.

They were friends in a friendship closer than brotherhood. Nello was
a little Ardennois—Patrasche was a big Fleming. They were both of the
same age by length of years, yet one was still young, and the other
was already old. They had dwelt together almost all their days: both
were orphaned and destitute, and owed their lives to the same hand.
It had been the beginning of the tie between them, their first bond
of sympathy; and it had strengthened day by day, and had grown with
their growth, firm and indissoluble, until they loved one another very
greatly.

Their home was a little hut on the edge of a little village—a Flemish
village a league from Antwerp, set amidst flat breadths of pasture
and corn-lands, with long lines of poplars and of alders bending in
the breeze on the edge of the great canal which ran