I Know a Secret

I Know a Secret (1927)
by Christopher Darlington Morley

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I Know a Secret

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I Know a Secret

By
Christopher Morley

Illustrated by
Jeanette Warmuth

Garden City, New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1927

Copyright, 1927, by Doubleday, Page & Company. Copyright, 1927, by the Saturday Review Company, Inc. Copyright, 1927, by the Forum Publishing Company. Copyright, 1927, by the Century Company. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States at the Country Life Press, Garden City, N. Y.

To
H. F. M.
and to
Christopher, Louise, Helen, and Blythe
not forgetting
the two young Cassidies
and the
four young Snyders

Contents

		page
Fourchette and the Kittens		1
The Grape Arbor Tea Room		11
Mr. Liverwurst's Picnic		23
The Scheming Kitten		37
The Birdhouse of Lincoln Logs		43
Paper Daffodils		53
Jack Beanstalk and the Pea Princess		62
The Unamiable Child		75
A Story About Bar Beach		91
Ferdinand and the Taste for Cheese		100
The Escape of the Penguins		110
The Story of Louise's Garden		130
The Pilot Light		138
Gissing Pond		146
Rabbits with Wet Eyes		158
Chickens in the Field		166
The Peanut Wagon		175
A Letter from Fourchette		194
Story of the Thrush's Nest		203
Gissing and the Telephone		211
How This Book Got Published		223

Illustrations

Junior had put up a sign		Frontispiece
		page
They were towing the club dinghy		33
The hopeful animals would come scampering		81
Gissing Telephones to Santa Claus		217

I know a secret that the night imparts
When bedtime ends day's honors and disgraces
And masquerades all stormy little hearts
With such deceptively angelic faces!

You shan't forget your green and golden youth,
Lying some day so dim and far behind you:
So, mingling simple fancy, simple truth,
Here are these little fables, to remind you.

You won't forget. All in all joy and pain
Life offers, dear my urchins, when you're older,
How Daddy'd love to carry once again
You, and all your world, upon his shoulder!

I Know a Secret

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1927, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1957, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 66 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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