title: The Sterile Cuckoo
author: John Nichols
description: [Nicholss] art is impressive.<br /> - <strong><em>New York Times</em></strong><br /><br />Dazzling. . . . [The] funny, imaginative, and pathetic story of the beginning and end of a rapturous love affair between two crazy college kids.<br /> - <strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong><br /><br />Comic and touching and true.<br /> - <strong>Reynolds Price</strong>
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  # The Cuckoo Clock
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Mrs. Molesworth
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I. THE OLD HOUSE.
  
  
  CHAPTER II. IM_PATIENT GRISELDA.
  
  
  CHAPTER III. OBEYING ORDERS.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. THE COUNTRY OF THE NODDING MANDARINS.
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER V. PICTURES.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. RUBBED THE WRONG WAY.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. BUTTERFLY-LAND.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. MASTER PHIL.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. UP AND DOWN THE CHIMNEY.
  
  
  CHAPTER X. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. “CUCKOO, CUCKOO, GOOD-BYE!”
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE CUCKOO CLOCK
  
  
  by
  
  
  MRS. MOLESWORTH
  
  
  Author of “Herr Baby,” “Carrots,” “Grandmother Dear,” etc.
  
  
  Illustrated by Walter Crane
  
  
  London: MacMillan and Co., and New York.
  
  
  1895
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Illustration: IT WAS A LITTLE BOAT.]
  
  
  [Illustration]
  
  
  
  
  
  TO
  
  
  MARY JOSEPHINE,
  
  
  AND TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF HER BROTHER,
  
  
  THOM