The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1

by Robert Louis Stevenson

THE PENNY WHISTLE:
NURSERY VERSES
BY
Robert Louis Stevenson.
ILLUSTRATED BY — — —

And here we have an excellent frontispiece, of a party playing on a P. W. to a little ring of dancing children.

THE PENNY WHISTLE
is the name for me.

Fool! this is all wrong, here is the true name:—

PENNY WHISTLES
FOR SMALL WHISTLERS.

The second title is queried, it is perhaps better, as simply PENNY WHISTLES.

Nor you, O Penny Whistler, grudge
That I your instrument debase:
By worse performers still we judge,
And give that fife a second place!

Crossed penny whistles on the cover, or else a sheaf of ’em.

SUGGESTIONS.

IV. The procession—the child running behind it. The procession tailing off through the gates of a cloudy city.