Naughts and Crosses by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Fiction, Action & Adventure

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One day, when she and her boy were out playing, the boy stopped for a moment. He stood and smiled at her with the sun at his back – and his shadow lay upon the whitened steps. But the silhouette was not that of a little breeched boy at all, but of a little girl in petticoats – with long curls, where the charwoman’s son was close-cropped!

The Magic Shadow is one of the dozen-plus stories of everyday life – and of not-so-everyday delight and wonder – in Naughts and Crosses, by the author of The Splendid Spur.