Lady Hollyhock and Her Friends: A Book of Nature Dolls and Others
Lady Hollyhock AND HER FRIENDS
HOLLYHOCK PLACE
LADY HOLLYHOCK AND HER FRIENDS
A Book of Nature Dolls and Others By Margaret Coulson Walker Author of “Our Birds and Their Nestlings” Drawings by MARY ISABEL HUNT
“The more things thou learnest to know and enjoy, the more complete and full will be for thee the delight of living.”—Phlalen
Garden City New York DOUBLEDAY PAGE & COMPANY 1917
Copyright, 1906, by Doubleday Page & Company Published, October, 1906
To My Mother Who has always known how to help little people enjoy themselves
O the fluttering and the pattering of the green things growing,
How they talk each to each, when none of us are knowing;
Margaret Coulson Walker
Lady Hollyhock AND HER FRIENDS
Foreword
Contents
Illustrations
Lady Hollyhock and Her Daughter
The Cucumbers
Radishes and Corn
The Radish Baby’s Song
Radish Babies
The Corn Lullaby
Pansies
Pansy Ladies
Poppy Maids
Poppy Lullaby
Acorn and Burdock Eskimos
Pigs
Burdock Leaves and Clothes-Pins
The Clothes-Pin Tribe
An Irish (Potato) Woman and Her Family
Creatures of Clay
A Man of Clay
The Corn Husk Lady
The Corn Cob Baby
Apple Jack
APPLE JACK’S STORY
The Peanut Man
The Peanut Chinese Woman
The Acorn Family
The Haws
The Gourds
Gourd Men
What the Gourd Man Said
The Mender
Hickory-Nut People
The Hickory-Nut Nurse
The Kelp Maiden
The Kelp Maid’s Song
Morning-Glory Ladies
Jack O’Lanterns
Pumpkin Pies
Jack O’Lantern Dreams
Rastus Prune
Dinah Prune
Pipe Dolls
Paper Dolls
Handkerchief Dolls
Pill-Box Dolls
The Straw Indian
The Dried Peach Indian
The Softening of the Snows
Pastry Creatures
The Doughnut Man
The Gingerbread Maid
The Yarn Child
Rag Dolls
Rag Babies
Tissue-Paper Ladies
Humpty-Dumpty
Cinderella’s Coach
