The Good Crow's Happy Shop

THE GOOD CROW’S HAPPY SHOP

The Good Crow and his Mail Box
THE GOOD CROW’S HAPPY SHOP
BY PATTEN BEARD Author of “The Jolly Year,” “Marjorie’s Literary Dolls,” “The Jolly Book of Boxcraft,” “The Bluebird’s Garden,” etc. THIRTEEN PICTURES OF HAPPY THINGS THAT WERE MADE BY THE CHILDREN IN THE SHOP OF THE GOOD CROW CAW CAW, DRAWN AND ARRANGED BY THE AUTHOR WITH MARGINAL BY MR. ARTHUR HULL
THE PILGRIM PRESS BOSTON CHICAGO
Copyright 1917 By PATTEN BEARD THE PILGRIM PRESS BOSTON
THIS BOOK OF THE HAPPY SHOP IS DEDICATED TO HENRY JARRETT AND CAW CAW, HIS GOOD PLAY CROW
LONG time ago, the author of this book played the crow play as a little girl, and when she grew up, she gave the crow play to Henry Jarrett. Now, Henry Jarrett and Patten Beard give this play to many other children. In doing this, they have had help from The Delineator , The Youth’s Companion , The Pictorial Review , and The Mother’s Magazine . These have used some of the plays in this book.

ONCE a year, Aunt Phoebe came to visit in the city at Jimsi’s house. Aunt Phoebe was Mother’s best friend. Jimsi and Henry and baby Katherine had known her ever so long. They could not remember the time when they did not know Aunt Phoebe. Probably the time dated back to the age of rattles and squeaky rubber dolls when the children were so small that they knew nothing at all about Aunt Phoebe’s Good Crow, Caw Caw.
You see, Aunt Phoebe was a “play aunt.” She did not really belong to the family as everyday aunts and uncles do. She began by playing she was an aunt and almost everything that she did was either make-believe or play or something equally jolly. And Aunt Phoebe’s Good Crow Caw Caw was a play too. It was a happy make-believe that had grown up with Jimsi and Henry and Katherine.