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] |