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Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906


Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince
Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved
international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and
Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her "Anne of Green
Gables" books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and
poetry. She published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty
novels before her death in 1942. The Project Gutenberg collection of
her short stories was gathered from numerous sources and is presented
in chronological publishing order:

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922


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Short Stories 1905 to 1906

    A Correspondence and a Climax                            1905
    An Adventure on Island Rock                              1906
    At Five O'Clock in the Morning                           1905
    Aunt Susanna's Birthday Celebration                      1905
    Bertie's New Year                                        1905
    Between the Hill and the Valley                          1905
    Clorinda's Gifts                                         1906
    Cyrilla's Inspiration                                    1905
    Dorinda's Desperate Deed                                 1906
    Her Own People                                           1905
    Ida's New Year Cake                                      1905
    In the Old Valley                                        1906
    Jane Lavinia                                             1906
    Mackereling Out in the Gulf                              1905
    Millicent's Double                                       1905
    The Blue North Room                                      1906
    The Christmas Surprise At Enderly Road                   1905
    The Dissipation of Miss Ponsonby                         1906
    The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner                            1906
    The Fraser Scholarship                                   1905
    The Girl at the Gate                                     1906
    The Light on the Big Dipper                              1906
    The Prodigal Brother                                     1906
    The Redemption of John Churchill                         1906
    The Schoolmaster's Letter                                1905
    The Story of Uncle Dick                                  1906
    The Understanding of Sister Sara                         1905
    The Unforgotten One                                      1906
    The Wooing of Bessy                                      1906
    Their Girl Josie                                         1906
    When Jack and Jill Took a Hand                           1905




A Correspondence and A Climax


At sunset Sidney hurried to her room to take off the soiled and faded
cotton dress she had worn while milking. She had milked eight cows and
pumped water for the milk-cans afterward in the fag-end of a hot
summer day. She did that every night, but tonight she had hurried more
than usual because she wanted to get her letter written before the
early farm bedtime. She had been thinking it out while she milked the
cows in the stuffy little pen behind the barn. This monthly letter was
the only pleasure and stimulant in her life. Existence would have
been, so Sidney thought, a dreary, unbearable blank without it. She
cast aside her milking-dress with a thrill of distaste that tingled to
her rosy fingertips. As she slipped into her blue-print afternoon
dress her aunt called to her from below. Sidney ran out to the dark
little entry and leaned over the stair railing. Below in the kitchen
there was a hubbub of laughing, crying, quarrelling children, and a
reek of bad tobacco smoke drifted up to the girl's disgusted nostrils.

Aunt Jane was standing at the foot of the stairs with a lamp in one
hand and a year-old baby clinging to the other. She was a big
shapeless woman with a round good-natured face--cheerful and vulgar as
a sunflower was Aunt Jane at all times and occasions.

"I want to run over and see how Mrs. Brixby is this evening, Siddy,
and you must take care of the baby till I get back."

Sidney sighed and went downstairs for the baby. It never would have
occurred to her to protest or be petulant about it. She had all her
aunt's sweetness of disposition, if she resembled her in nothing else.
She had not grumbled because she had to rise at four that morning, get
breakfast, milk the cows, bake bread, prepare seven children for
school, get dinner, preserve twenty quarts of strawberries, get tea,
and milk the cows again. All her days were alike as far as hard work
and dullness went, but she accepted them cheerfully and
uncomplainingly. But she did