THE PEDLER OF DUST STICKS
BY
MRS. FOLLEN
With illustrations by Billings
CONTENTS
[THE PEDLER OF DUST STICKS.]
["ON THE GRAVE OF THE GOOD, GREAT MAN."]
[THE MIGHTY DEEDS OF ABC.]
[WHAT DAY IS IT?]
[THE CHILD AT HER MOTHER'S GRAVE.]
[EVENING PRAYER.]
[THE SABBATH IS HERE.]
[TO A BUTTERFLY.]
THE PEDLER OF DUST STICKS.
One day I went to visit a friend, a lady, who came from Hamburg, in Germany. I was much pleased with a portrait which was hanging up in her room, and I was particularly struck by the ornamental drawings with which the picture was surrounded. They consisted of whip handles, canes, piano keys, mouth-pieces for wind instruments, all sorts of umbrellas, and many more things, of every sort, made of cane and whalebone. The arrangement was so ingenious, the designs so fanciful, and the execution so good, that nothing could be prettier. But what of course was of the most importance, was the face and head that they were meant to ornament. "What a benevolent, what a beautiful face!" I said. "Who is it?"
"My father," the lady replied; "and he is more beautiful than the picture, and he is still more kind than he looks there."