Copyright, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895,
By The Century Co.
Copyright, 1895.
By Estes and Lauriat
Colonial Press:
C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, Mass., U.S.A.


TO
JOHN AND BETTY


CONTENTS.

PAGE
Dedication[vii]
Betty[15]
Two Calls[16]
A New Year Song[19]
New Year[20]
A Lesson Song[24]
The Rubber Baby[26]
The Red, White and Blue[28]
Totty’s Christmas[29]
A Certain Boy[32]
The New Sister[33]
Buttercup Gold[35]
One Afternoon[42]
The Stove[43]
John’s Sister[44]
New Year Song[45]
What Was Her Name[46]
A Lesson Song[49]
The Patient Cat[52]
Mathematics[53]
By the Fading Light[55]
Tobogganing Song[58]
Song of the Tilt[59]
The Lazy Robin[60]
The Boy’s Manners[62]
Merry Christmas[66]
Rinktum[67]
In the Tunnel[69]
Practising Song[71]
Queen Elizabeth’s Dance[72]
A Storming Party[74]
At the Little Boy’s Home[75]
Then and Now[76]
Pleasant Walk[78]
A Great Day[80]
A Pastoral[82]
Riches[84]
Poverty[85]
The Best of All[87]
A Study Hour[89]
The Young Ladies[90]
The Weathercock[92]
Ichthyology[93]
A Happy Morning[98]
Lilies and Cat-Tails[99]
The Metals[104]
The Howlery Growlery Room[109]
The Speckled Hen[113]
The Money Shop[116]
A Long Afternoon[121]
The Jacket[122]
The Fireworks[124]
Jingle[126]
See-Saw[127]
Nancy’s Nightmare[129]
Amy’s Valentine[131]
Once Upon a Time[133]
The Pathetic Ballad of Clarinthia Jane Louisa[134]
A Day in the Country[135]
Goosey Lucy[136]
Goosey Lucy’s New Year’s Calls[139]
Three Little Birds[142]
The Quacky Duck[143]
New Year Thoughts[144]
Nonsense[145]
The Singular Chicken[147]
The Clever Parson[148]
The Purple Fish[155]
Mr. Somebody[157]
A Christmas Ride[159]
A Funny Fellow[161]
Woffsky-Poffsky[162]
April and the Children[163]
The Snowball[165]
A Great Fight[168]
Hallelujah![171]
Lullaby[172]
Merry Christmas[173]
The Little Dog with the Green Tail[175]
Naughty[180]
Hard Times[180]
On the Steeple[183]
Naughty Billy[184]
A Lad[184]
Saint Valentine’s House[185]
The Gentleman[187]
A Leap Year Boy[190]
King Pippin[193]
The Story of the Crimson Crab[194]
Mother’s Riddle[196]
King John[197]
The Spotty Cow[198]
The Button Pie[199]
The Inquisitive Ducks[200]
Queen Matilda[202]
The Two-Shoes Chair[203]
Ethelred the Unready[205]
Poor Bonny[205]
The Husking of the Corn[209]
The Clever Cheese-Maker[211]
The Spelling Lesson[214]
The Person who Did Not Like Cats[216]