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

<p><strong>One day when she and her boy were out playing the boy stopped for a moment.</strong> 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 <em>but of a little girl in petticoats</em> -- with long curls where the charwoman's son was close-cropped!</p><p>The Magic Shadow is one of the dozen-plus stories of everyday life -- and of not-so-everyday delight and wonder -- in <em>Naughts and Crosses</em> by the author of <em>The Splendid Spur.</em></p>