Cousin Lucy at Play / By the Author of the Rollo Books

THE LUCY BOOKS, BY THE Author of the Rollo Books.
New York. Clark, Austin and Smith.
COUSIN LUCY AT PLAY.
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ROLLO BOOKS.
A NEW EDITION, REVISED BY THE AUTHOR.
NEW YORK: CLARK, AUSTIN & SMITH, 3 PARK ROW AND 3 ANN-STREET. 1857.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, By T. H. CARTER, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
Two volumes of a series of little books, corresponding, in their general style and characteristics, with the Rollo Books for boys, but designed more particularly for the other sex, have already been published, under the names of Cousin Lucy’s Conversations , and Cousin Lucy’s Stories . This, and its companion, Cousin Lucy at Study , are now offered to the public, in the hope that the little readers, into whose hands they may fall, may be interested, and, in some degree at least, profited, by the perusal of them.
LUCY AT PLAY.
There was a box, or chest, of a somewhat singular character, in the house where Lucy lived; it was called the marble box . It was not really made of marble; it was made of wood; but then it was painted marble color, and that was the reason why it was called the marble box.
The marble box had books and playthings in it. It was pretty large, and so it would hold a considerable number. There was a handle at each end, and when Lucy took hold of one handle, and Royal, her brother, of the other, the box was just about as much as they could conveniently carry. The place where the marble box was usually kept, was under a table in the back chamber entry, not far from the head of the stairs.
There was a lock to the marble box, and Lucy’s mother kept the key. She tied a piece of blue ribbon to the key to mark it, and she kept it hung up under the mantel shelf in her room.