Land of play: Verses, rhymes, stories
THEIR FIRST KISS
Verses—Rhymes—Stories
Selected by Sara Tawney Lefferts
Illustrated by M. L. Kirk & Florence England Nosworthy
New York Cupples & Leon Company
Copyright, 1911, by CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY
Printed in U.S.A.
Acknowledgment is due the following publishers and authors, for their courteous permission to use material on which they hold copyright:
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for permission to use “Hiawatha’s Childhood,” “The Heights by Great Men Reached,” by Henry W. Longfellow; “Barefoot Boy,” by John G. Whittier; “Chippy Chirio,” by John Burroughs; “What the Winds Bring,” by Edmund Clarence Stedman; “Fable,” “Duty,” by Emerson; “The Brown Thrush,” by Lucy Larcom; “April,” by Alice Cary.
The Century Co., for permission to use “The Little Elf,” by John Kendrick Bangs.
Small, Maynard & Co., for permission to use “The Tax Gatherer,” by John B. Tabb.
Harper & Brothers, for permission to use “A Child’s Laughter,” from The Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
HIE AWAY.
CHARLIE’S STORY.
SEVEN TIMES ONE.
GOING INTO BREECHES.
MR. PEGGOTTY’S HOUSE.
APRIL.
THE TABLE AND THE CHAIR.
THE BRAVE BROTHER.
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE THE ROSE.
A CONTEST BETWEEN NOSE AND EYES
THE BROWN THRUSH.
OUR MOTHER.
A LOBSTER QUADRILLE.
THE TAX-GATHERER.
THE BAREFOOT BOY.
A STORY OF WASHINGTON.
EPITAPH ON A FREE BUT TAME REDBREAST.
SLOTH MAKES ALL THINGS DIFFICULT.
MY BLUE-EYED BABY BOY.
PLAYING TABLEAUX.
WHAT DOES LITTLE BIRDIE SAY?
THE RAINBOW.
SPRING SONG.
DUTY.
PLAYING MOTHER—A MONOLOGUE.
FOLLOW ME.
A MODEST WIT.
LITTLE THINGS.
THE BOY WHO NEVER TOLD A LIE.
THE FROG AND THE OX.
A CHILD’S LAUGHTER.
THE BOY AND THE SHEEP.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY STARS?
A VIOLET BANK.
A BLADE OF GRASS.
GOOD-NIGHT AND GOOD-MORNING.
MY FATHER WAS A FARMER.
HIAWATHA’S CHILDHOOD.
AMERICA.
THE NATIONAL FLAG.
MARJORIE’S BATH.
BLIND MAN’S BUFF.
LONDON BRIDGE.
THE SWALLOW.
BUTTERCUPS.
FABLE.
THE FIELD MOUSE AND THE TOWN MOUSE.
A DUTCH WINTER.
IF I WERE A COBBLER.
THANKSGIVING DAY.
HALLUCINATIONS.
LET US HAVE FAITH.
LUCY’S BALLOON.
CHOOSING A NAME.
A LITTLE NEGLECT MAY BREED MISCHIEF.
RULES OF BEHAVIOR.
THE LOST DOLL.
OLD SANTA CLAUS.
A RIDDLE.
A BOY’S SONG.
LET DOGS DELIGHT TO BARK AND BITE.
MY SHIP AND I.
THE PUSSY WILLOWS.
A DUTCH LULLABY.
IF WE WORK UPON MARBLE.
THE DUEL.
THE ANT AND THE CRICKET.
A GOOD LISTENER.
EMPLOYMENT.
A CHILD’S THOUGHT OF GOD.
SONG.
LADY MOON.
IN A CHILD’S ALBUM.
LOVE BETWEEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS
BE GOOD.
OLD RHYME.
THE CHRISTMAS STOCKING.
THE EAGLE.
THE BEE AND THE FLOWER.
THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT.
MAKING EXCUSES.
EXTREMES.
THE WAY TO BE HAPPY.
BUTTERCUPS AND DAISIES.
THE LITTLE ELF.
HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUSY BEE.
A FAREWELL.
THE LANGUAGE OF THE BIRDS.
REMEDY FOR EVIL.
MEDDLESOME MATTY.
TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR.
THE NIGHTINGALE AND GLOWWORM.
