When the kids next door cross a line, Mrs Shields can't help but speak up about it.

She knows it will set the gossip machine in motion, but right is right.

Isn't it?

Mary Stanbury Watts, today on the Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening. The Vintage episode for the week is The Country of the Blind by

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Have you ever read Pollyanna by Eleanor H Porter?

Well, you should. Everybody should.

With the way things have gotten so dark lately, I figured I just needed a shot of something

bright and cheerful, and reading Pollyanna was just what the doctor ordered.

So I recorded it.

I'll be releasing it as a boxed set, along with Winnie the Pooh,

the Wind in the Willows, and Alice in Wonderland. Keep an eye on your inbox and I'll send

the product link as soon as it's available this week.

You can pre-order it now if you like by following the link in the show notes.

Mary Stanbury Watts was a rather prolific author at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

She wrote many stories for McClures and novels from McMillan, several set during the Spanish-American War.

Today's story, Nice Neighbors, she wrote near the end of her writing career in 1923.

Just a heads up, this story does deal with violence toward animals.

And now, Nice Neighbors by Mary Stanbury Watts. Guiding the possible tenant about the house, Miss Wilcox pointed out its desirable features in a dry little monotone that gave no hint, she hoped, of her inward taught anxiety.

She could not have achieved the persuasive enthusiasm of the young man from the real estate

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