Status Updates From The Young Visiters

This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you. Be a man said Ethel in a gentle whisper and I shall always think of you in a warm manner. Well, half a loaf is better than no bread responded Mr Salteena in a gloomy voice.

My great uncle Ambrose Fudge said Bernard carelessly. He looks a thourough ancester said Ethel kindly. Well, he was said Bernard in a proud tone he was really the Sinister son of Queen Victoria. Not really cried Ethel in excited tones but what does that mean. Well, I dont quite know said Bernard Clark it puzzles me very much but ancesters do turn quear at times.

It seems to me to be a remarkable work for a child, remarkable even in its length and completeness, for when children turn author they usually stop in the middle, like the kitten when it jumps. The pencilled MS. has been accurately reproduced, not a word added or cut out. Each chapter being in one long paragraph, however, this has been subdivided for the reader's comfort. - from the Introduction by J.M. Barrie

The "owner of the copyright" guarantees that "The Young Visiters" is the unaided effort in fiction of an authoress of nine years. "Effort," however, is an absurd word to use, as you may see by studying the triumphant countenance of the child herself, which is here reproduced as frontispiece to her sublime work.

This 9 year old might not have a grasp on grammar and the mechanics of writing dialogue, but she has a bigger vocabulary than 80% of best selling authors do these days so I’m enjoying myself immensely. Also loved this: “He beat time to the music and smiled kindly at the waiters and he felt very excited inside. ‘I am seeing life with a vengeance,’ he muttered to himself.”