The step up to the porch is any small box you may have.
Inside the store, a long hat-pin box makes a counter. Flowers, leaves, pretty pebbles, shells, and little toys such as you may find among your own playthings may be displayed upon the counter.
A roly-poly tumble toy will make a clerk for the store, or, if you like, you may find both clerk and customers in magazine pictures, and you can mount them on thin cardboard and cut them out. There is no end to the plays you can invent when your store is finished. Polly Ann of shoe-box cottage, Boxville, has just come to the store to buy a loaf of bread. There it is—that pretty brown pebble! Those green leaves are vegetables! The beads in that box are apples! The shells are little cakes!
To Boxville! To Boxville! To have a lot of fun!
I’m going to the general store to buy a penny bun!
The bun is just a pebble on the counter of the store,
And the penny’s made of paper, so, perhaps, I’ll make some more!
The Village Store made of a shoe-box and two shoe-box covers.
