. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . THE INKSTAND. here lived once a good old lady, whom all the childrencalled Aunt, and because she had black hair and alwayswore a black dress they called her the Black Aunt. Aunt loved the children very dearly; and they weremuch attached to her, for she was always kind to them,and knew how to play charming plays with them, and totell all sorts of stories which the little people were nevertired of hearing. One morning the Aunt woke up early,— it was her birthday morning, — and saw a beautiful 1 inkstand on the table at her bedside. I
. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . THE INKSTAND. here lived once a good old lady, whom all the childrencalled Aunt, and because she had black hair and alwayswore a black dress they called her the Black Aunt. Aunt loved the children very dearly; and they weremuch attached to her, for she was always kind to them,and knew how to play charming plays with them, and totell all sorts of stories which the little people were nevertired of hearing. One morning the Aunt woke up early,— it was her birthday morning, — and saw a beautiful 1 inkstand on the table at her bedside. It was richly paintedand ornamented with variegated flowers and little goldflourishes so that it was a pleasure only to look at the Aunt got up she asked every body in the housowho it was that had made her a present of the not a soul knew any tiling about it, and all wonderedhow it had got to the Aunts bedside. Nevertheless theinkstand was there, and the Aunt was very much pleasedwith it, and carried it to her writing desk.
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