From The Nightingale and other stories, published by Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1951. Illustration by Garry Mackenzie. Once upon a time there was a periwinkle. He was a tiny snail, with a shell just about as big as a farthing, and he lived among the rocks and the seaweed on the sea-shore. It was Read more about The Sad Periwinkle[…]