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Ellen Edwards</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em;'>John C. Staples</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: February 3, 2023 [eBook #69938]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="cover" style="max-width: 100em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[1]</span></p> - -<h1 id="TOLD_IN_THE_TWILIGHT">Told in the Twilight</h1> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page01" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page01.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page02" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page02.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page03" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page03.jpg" alt=""> - <p class="caption">TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT</p> -</div> - -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page04" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page04.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page05" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page05.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -</div> - -<p class="center larger">TOLD<br> -IN THE<br> -TWILIGHT</p> - -<p class="titlepage">by F. E. Weatherly</p> - -<p class="titlepage">Illustrated by<br> -<span class="smcap">M. Ellen Edwards</span><br> -&<br> -<span class="smcap">John C. Staples</span></p> - -<p class="titlepage">NEW YORK<br> -E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY<br> -39, WEST TWENTY THIRD STREET.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page06" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page06.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="TWILIGHT_LAND"><i>TWILIGHT LAND.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The day is done, the day is done,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And all the troubles of the day!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The long last crimson of the sun</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Is melting into silver gray.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The old world slowly fades from view,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Within another world we stand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And all is strange and all is new,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For this, for this is Twilight-land.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page07" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page07.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_TWILIGHT_HOUR"><i>THE TWILIGHT HOUR.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Children, who read these little rhymes,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Out of the Twilight-land sent clear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There’s many a one in these hurrying times,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Has not the time, like you, to hear.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">But, children, this is your hour indeed;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And this is its beauty, this its power,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That all you love and that all you need</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Comes to your hearts in the twilight hour.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">This is the hour when dreams come true,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And life has never a tear or care,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When those you have lost come back to you,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And all your castles are strong and fair.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then, children, who read, and I who write,—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Shall we not pray with all our power,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That whatever we lose of the world’s delight,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">We lose not the peace of the twilight hour?</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page08" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page08.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS"><i>CONTENTS.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<table> - <tr> - <td><i>TITLE PAGE</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#TOLD_IN_THE_TWILIGHT">1.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>THE OLD PICTURE BOOK</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_OLD_PICTURE-BOOK">48.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>BELL’S DREAM</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#BELLS_DREAM">10, 11, 14, 15.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>BELL’S DREAM</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#BELLS_DREAM">10, 11, 14, 15.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>LONDON RIVER</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#LONDON_RIVER">17.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>THE ABBEY SWALLOWS</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_ABBEY_SWALLOWS">19.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>THE MISGUIDED LAMB</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_MISGUIDED_LAMB">21, 23.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>THE MISGUIDED LAMB</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_MISGUIDED_LAMB">21, 23.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>THE POET AND THE PRINTER</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_POET_AND_THE_PRINTER">32, 33.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>THE POET AND THE PRINTER</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_POET_AND_THE_PRINTER">32, 33.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>MINNIE’S CALCULATIONS</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#MINNIES_CALCULATIONS">27.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>DREAMS</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#DREAMS">28.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>SORROWS</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#SORROWS">31.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>HARRY’S SOLILOQUY</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#HARRYS_SOLILOQUY">35.</a></td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page09" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page09.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<table> - <tr> - <td><i>THE DEAD RABBIT</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_DEAD_RABBIT">37.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>THE UNAPPRECIATIVE KITTEN</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_UNAPPRECIATIVE_KITTEN">39.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>THE DONKEY AND THE CHILD (picture)</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#page40">40.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>SUMMER TIME (picture)</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#page41">41.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>THE CAT’S SOLILOQUY</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_CATS_SOLILOQUY">42.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>TOBY’S LESSON</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#TOBYS_LESSON">44.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>SELINA’S DESTINY</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#SELINAS_DESTINY">46.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>THE LOBSTER AND THE MAID</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_LOBSTER_AND_THE_MAID">49, 50, 51.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>NO THANK YOU, TOM</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#NO_THANK_YOU_TOM">53.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>A BUNCH OF FLOWERS</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#A_BUNCH_OF_FLOWERS">55.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>THE CHILDREN’S SONG</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_CHILDRENS_SONG">58.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>CHRISTMAS (picture)</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#page57">57.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>THE CHILDREN’S SONG</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_CHILDRENS_SONG">59.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>A BOUGH OF HOLLY</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#A_BOUGH_OF_HOLLY">61.</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><i>THE END</i>,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_END">63.</a></td> - </tr> -</table> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page10" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page10.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="BELLS_DREAM"><i>BELL’S DREAM.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">It was the little Isabel,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Upon the sand she lay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The summer sun struck hotly down,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And she was tired of play,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And down she sank into the sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Though how, she could not say.—</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">She stood within a dreadful court,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Beneath the rolling tide,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There sate a sturgeon as a judge,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Two lobsters at her side;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She had a sort of vague idea</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That she was being tried.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And then the jurymen came in,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And, as the clock struck ten,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rose Sergeant Shark and hitched his gown,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And trifled with a pen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Ahem—may’t please your Lordship,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And gentle jurymen!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“The counts against the prisoner</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Before you, are that she</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Has eaten salmon once at least,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And soles most constantly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Likewise devoured one hundred shrimps</div> - <div class="verse indent2">At Margate with her tea.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page11" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page11.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Call witnesses!”—An oyster rose,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He spoke in plaintive tone,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Last week her mother bought a fish,”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">(He scarce could check a moan,)—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“He was a dear dear friend of mine,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">His weight was half a stone!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“No oysters, ma’am?” the fishman said,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“No, not to-day!” said she;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“My child is fond of salmon, but</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Oysters do not agree!”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The fishman wiped a salt salt tear,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And murmured “Certainly!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Ahem—but,” interposed the judge,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“How do you know,” said he,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“That she did really eat the fish?”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“My Lud, it so must be,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Because the oysters, I submit,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With her did not agree!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Besides, besides,” the oyster cried</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Half in an injured way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“The oysters in that fishman’s shop</div> - <div class="verse indent2">My relatives were they:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They heard it all, they wrote to me,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The letter came to-day!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page12" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page12.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page13" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page13.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page14" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page14.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“’Tis only hearsay evidence,”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The judge remarked, and smiled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“But it will do in such a case,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With such a murd’rous child.—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Call the next witness!” for he saw</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The jury getting wild.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And then uprose a little shrimp:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“I am the last,” said he,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Of what was once, as you all know,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A happy familee!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Without a care we leapt and danced</div> - <div class="verse indent2">All in the merry sea!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Alack! the cruel fisherman,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He caught them all but me;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The pris’ner clapped her hands and yelled—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I heard her—‘Shrimps for tea!’</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And then went home and ate them all</div> - <div class="verse indent2">As fast as fast could be.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The foreman of the jury rose,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">(All hope for Bel has fled,)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“There is no further need, my Lord,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Of witnesses,” he said;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“The verdict of us one and all</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Is <i>Guilty</i> on each head!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page15" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page15.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“<i>Guilty</i>,” his Lordship said, and sighed,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“A verdict sad but true:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To pass the sentence of the court</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Is all I have to do;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It is, that as you’ve fed on us,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Why, we must feed on you!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">She tried to speak; she could not speak;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">She tried to run, but no!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The lobsters seized and hurried her</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Off to the cells below,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And each pulled out a carving knife,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And waved it to and fro.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse center">* * * *</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">But hark! there comes a voice she knows,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And some one takes her hand;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She finds herself at home again</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Upon the yellow sand;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But how she got there safe and sound,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">She cannot understand.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And many a morning afterwards,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Whene’er she sees the tide,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She still retains that vague idea</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That she is being tried,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And seems to see the sturgeon judge</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And the lobsters at her side.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page16" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page16.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page17" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page17.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="LONDON_RIVER"><i>LONDON RIVER.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">All day long in the scorching weather,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">All day long in the winter gloom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Brother and sister stand together,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">She with her flowers and he with his broom.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And the folks go on over London river,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Poor and wealthy, busy and wise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Will nobody see those white lips quiver?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Will nobody stop for those pleading eyes?</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The old bridge echoes the ceaseless thunder</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Of crowds that gather and stream along,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the stranger child shrinks back in wonder,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">She cannot sing in that hurrying throng.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">She thinks of her home across the ocean,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With its deep blue sky and its vineyards green;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But who will heed, in that wild commotion,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The pitiful sound of her tambourine?</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Flow! flow! O London river,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Carry thy ships from the mighty town,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Smiles and tears in thy heart for ever,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Smiles and tears as thou hurriest down!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page18" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page18.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page19" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page19.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_ABBEY_SWALLOWS"><i>THE ABBEY SWALLOWS.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The year was late, the days were cold,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The swallows long had gone,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two only by the Abbey door</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Still doubting lingered on.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They hovered, wheeling round and round,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Beside the porch in fear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And as they lighted on the ground</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A little child drew near.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Close to her feet the swallows came,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And twittered gay and glad,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She broke her little crust for them—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">It was the last she had.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then blithe and gay they flew away,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">She to her corner crept;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There was no one now in the world to care</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Whether she smiled or wept.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">With summer back the swallows came,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Flew to the Abbey door,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But no one stood to watch for them,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The child was there no more.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She had gone away on the angels’ wings,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">No more in the world to roam,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For the love that she gave those helpless things,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">She has found in her Heavenly Home.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page20" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page20.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page21" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page21.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_MISGUIDED_LAMB"><i>THE MISGUIDED LAMB.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There were two little girls who had</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A fond devoted Mammy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But spent their warm affections on</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A most ungrateful lamb-y,</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">For spite of all the care of Ruth,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And all the love of Mary,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This lamb was a misguided youth,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Most crooked and contràry.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">On Sunday, when they went to church,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And wished to be without him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He used to wander up the aisle,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And stop and stare about him.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And when the parson and the clerk</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Looked stern at Ruth and Mary,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They wished they did not own a lamb</div> - <div class="verse indent2">So crooked and contràry.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He used to bleat most piteously</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When they came up the mountain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As if to say “I am so dry,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I’d like to drink the fountain!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page22" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page22.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page23" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page23.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">But when they drew a pail for him,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">(You really scarce might think it,)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He wagged his tail and winked his eye,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And simply wouldn’t drink it.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">It chanced one day they went to pay</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Their morning salutation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But though they called, he never came,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Much to their consternation.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They sought him high, they sought him low,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But no! they could not find him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They said “He will, he must come back,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And bring his tail behind him.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They sought him up the windy cliff,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And down the ferny hollow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And still they said “He can’t be lost!”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And still their feet did follow.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Alas! they found him dead at last—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Alas! for Ruth and Mary:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But then, you see, he always was</div> - <div class="verse indent2">So crooked and contràry.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page24" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page24.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page25" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page25.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page26" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page26.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="MINNIES_CALCULATIONS"><i>MINNIE’S CALCULATIONS.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Said Minnie with pride,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">As she counted her chicks,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“When they’re grown a bit bigger,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I’ll sell all the six.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And as each ought to fetch</div> - <div class="verse indent2">At the least half a crown,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I can quite well afford me</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A new Sunday gown.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Alas for our castles!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">How soon they all slip!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The cat ate one chicken,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And one got the pip;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And while mourning their brother</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And sister, the four</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Were crushed by the carter-boy</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Slamming the door.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Don’t reckon your chickens</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Before they are hatched</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is a proverb some fancy</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Can never be matched.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But I think that this other</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Deserves to be told:—</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Don’t count on their value</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Until they are sold.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page27" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page27.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page28" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page28.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="DREAMS"><i>DREAMS.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sometimes, beneath the brightest skies,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The children pause amid their play,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With parted lips and earnest eyes</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In silence looking far away.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We may not know, we cannot see</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The wonder-world whereon they gaze;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Heaven grant, whate’er their dreams may be,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">They find them true in after days!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Dreaming sit the children,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Pausing in their play,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Dreaming of what is, ah! so sweet,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Because, because so far away.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And we too have our dreams, our own,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Amid the rush and toil of life,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Our dreams of days and things long flown,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That come like peace comes, after strife.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Old hands we feel, old eyes we see,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Within our ears old voices ring;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They are but dreams, maybe, maybe,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But oh! the blessing that they bring.</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Dreaming like the children,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">We dream from day to day,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Dreaming of what is, ah! so sweet,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Because, because so far away.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page29" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page29.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page30" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page30.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="SORROWS"><i>SORROWS.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There are sorrows, little children,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That you cannot understand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As you watch our tears in wonder,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">As you take us by the hand.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There are sorrows, little children,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">You cannot bear them yet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But you nestle close beside us,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And you help us to forget.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You comfort us, my darlings,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And yet you know not how;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You show us Heaven is near us,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Though our tears may blind us now.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There are little ones in Heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Gone a little while before,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And they stand, to watch us coming,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Beside the golden door.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There are little ones in Heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">They are calling you and me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When our hearts have grown forgetful,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And our feet would wayward be.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We can hear them, if we listen,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">We may meet them all one day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When our tears shall fall no longer,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And the shadows flee away!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page31" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page31.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page32" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page32.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_POET_AND_THE_PRINTER"><i>THE POET AND THE PRINTER.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Two little girls—I met them once,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But quite forget their name,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You’ll find them on page twenty-four,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The printer is to blame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The picture ought to face the words,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But there! it’s all the same.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Two little girls, as I remarked,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">They left their snug abode,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Because they thought their dinner must</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Taste better on the road,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For forks and spoons and tablecloths,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">They really incommode.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The ditch is far, far pleasanter</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Than any high-backed chair,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I’m sure you will agree with them</div> - <div class="verse indent2">If you’ll observe them there;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And when they’d finished, off they trudged</div> - <div class="verse indent2">All thro’ the summer air.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At last they reached a bridge (the bridge</div> - <div class="verse indent2">You’ll see on twenty-five),</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And on the bridge those little girls</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Are hanging all alive;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It’s marvellous how hanging</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Will make some children thrive!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page33" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page33.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They pondered which was best, to be</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Upon the bridge or under,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And what they’d do suppose the bridge</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Were just to split asunder,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But as they couldn’t settle that,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">They gave it up in wonder.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Now, had these children dined at home,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I think I may explain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We never should have seen them here</div> - <div class="verse indent2">At dinner in the lane:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Unless when they had dined at home</div> - <div class="verse indent2">They’d dined out here again.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And had the bridge been never built</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I think it must appear</div> - <div class="verse indent0">These children ne’er had found it, though</div> - <div class="verse indent2">They’d sought from year to year;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So, how they could have hung on it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Is not exactly clear.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And had I said, when I was asked,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“I cannot sing in winter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I’ve run my throat against a door,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And spiked it with a splinter;”—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It would have put the artists out,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And much annoyed the printer!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page34" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page34.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page35" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page35.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="HARRYS_SOLILOQUY"><i>HARRY’S SOLILOQUY.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“There’s ne’er a kitty so sweet and so pretty,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">There’s ne’er such a kitty I’ve seen in my life;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“I’m certain,” said Harry, “if ever I marry,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I shall only want kitty, a house, and a wife.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“This dear old barrow is nice, though it’s narrow,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">It will do very well to take us about;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For my income of course is too small to keep horses,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But that doesn’t matter, we’ll manage without.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">But alas! for the dreams of the barrow and kitten,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">His father’s old pointer came back from the wood;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the poor little pussy with terror was smitten,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And scampered away as fast as she could.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And the gardener returned from his evening ablution,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And trundled the barrow straight off to the shed;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And Mary arrived, and with stern resolution</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Just carried off Harry and put him to bed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page36" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page36.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37"></a>[37]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page37" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page37.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_DEAD_RABBIT"><i>THE DEAD RABBIT.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Weep on! he has a happier fate</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Than many such as he,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To lie there in the gentle snow,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And die so quietly:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To feel your warm tears fall on him,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To feel your tender hands.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You <i>know</i> he feels as well as you,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">You <i>know</i> he understands.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He might have now been dying</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Shot by a cruel gun;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With panting heart and glazing eye</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For life he might have run.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">E’en now he might be hanging</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Above your larder shelves,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And you, you might, indeed you might,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Have eaten him yourselves.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Weep on! you will not better it;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Or change the world’s old way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For men will hunt and course and shoot,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Though you should weep for aye.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Weep on! be not ashamed of it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">You’ll own in after years,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That <i>you yourselves</i>, if not the world,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Are better for your tears.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page38" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page38.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39"></a>[39]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page39" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page39.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_UNAPPRECIATIVE_KITTEN"><i>THE UNAPPRECIATIVE KITTEN.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Did e’er you see a flow’r like that,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">So exquisitely pretty?”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Said Mabel to her Kitty-cat;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But not a word said Kitty.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Perhaps it was in her delight</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Mabel contrived to squeeze her,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For though Kit stared with all her might,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The sunflow’r did not please her.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Well, well, why don’t you answer me?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Why don’t you say it’s pretty?”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But still she could or would not see,—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">She was perverse, was Kitty.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Sweet mistress, pray restrain your ire,”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Said Kit in trepidation;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Why must I say that I admire,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When I’ve no admiration?”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Don’t ask me that, you stupid cat,”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Said Mabel in a passion;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“You must, you shall admire,—because,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Because it is the fashion!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page40" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page40.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page41" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page41.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_42"></a>[42]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page42" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page42.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_CATS_SOLILOQUY"><i>THE CAT’S SOLILOQUY.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">An open cage, some feathers fair,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Two little maidens crying,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And Pussy seated on a chair,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The mournful scene espying.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tear after tear rolls down each cheek,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Sob after sob arises,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">While Puss, as well as she can speak,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Calmly soliloquises!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“If they would keep a bird in cage,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">They should not leave it undone;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For that’s the tale in every jail</div> - <div class="verse indent2">From Panama to London.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Their ducks and chicks they pet and feed,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And yet I’ve often noted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They eat the very birds indeed</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To which they’re most devoted.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then wherefore look so cross and sour,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Why make this sad commotion?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Why should not I a bird devour</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For whom I’ve <i>no</i> devotion!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43"></a>[43]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page43" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page43.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44"></a>[44]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page44" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page44.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="TOBYS_LESSON"><i>TOBY’S LESSON.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A was the Alphabet Toby must say,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">B was the Birch that made him obey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">C was the Collar he wore to explain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">D the Disgrace he had got in again,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">E was the Evening when Toby was gay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">F was the Fate that befell him next day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">G was the Grave look on Muriel’s face,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">H was the Hist’ry of Toby’s disgrace:—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I was the Ink that he spilt on the floor,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">J was his Jump to get out of the door,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">K was the Kick that he got as he past,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">L was the Lesson—alas! not the last,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">M was the Milk that he stole from the cat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">N was the Nap that he took after that,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O was the Owl that gave him a fright,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">P was the Poaching he went for at night,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Q was his Queer look all dirty and worn,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">R his Return somewhat early next morn,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">S was his Smile that would not avail,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">T was the Twitch of his terrified tail,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">U “Understand me” he tried to assert,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">V, his Vain effort his fate to avert,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">W, the Whip which he saw held on high,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">X, the Xpression that rose in his eye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Y was his Yap when at last the whip fell,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Z (like his feelings) I’ll leave you to tell.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_45"></a>[45]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page45" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page45.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_46"></a>[46]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page46" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page46.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="SELINAS_DESTINY"><i>SELINA’S DESTINY.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Selina Sophonisba Ann</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Had a soul above a frying-pan,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And, when her mother to cook began,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She took to her heels and away she ran.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Selina Sophonisba, she</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stood all day long ’neath the apple tree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till she became most dreadfull<i>ee</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0">What is commonly callèd hungar<i>ee</i>!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Selina Sophonisba Ann</div> - <div class="verse indent0">About her dinner to think began,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But the voice of a little Fairy-man</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Said, “Don’t go back to the frying-pan,</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Stay here beneath the apple tree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And you will find your destin<i>ee</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A prince is coming of high degree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who will make you queen of his fair countr<i>ee</i>.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The prince came not: and the moments ran,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And her thoughts to supper to turn began,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So Selina Sophonisba Ann</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Went gladly back to the frying-pan.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_47"></a>[47]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page47" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page47.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_48"></a>[48]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page48" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page48.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_OLD_PICTURE-BOOK"><i>THE OLD PICTURE-BOOK.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">It was an old old picture-book,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Full of the merriest tales</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of mermaids fair with golden hair,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And ships with silver sails;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of fairies light who danced at night,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Of goblins on the stair,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And many a knight in armour bright</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Who fought for ladies fair.</div> - <div class="verse indent4">It was only a battered picture-book,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">But ’twas worth its weight in gold,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">For it spoke to the children’s tender hearts,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">And its tales were never old.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">It is an old old picture-book,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Battered, and torn, and brown;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But why does the mother sit and sigh?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Why do her tears run down?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She listens through the long long eves,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">She waits for the opening door,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But the little hands that turned the leaves</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Will turn them again no more.</div> - <div class="verse indent4">It is only a battered picture-book,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">But she cannot lay it by,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">For hearts may change, but a mother’s love</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Is a love that cannot die!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_49"></a>[49]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page49" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page49.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_LOBSTER_AND_THE_MAID"><i>THE LOBSTER AND THE MAID.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He was a gentle lobster,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">(The boats had just come in,)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He did not love the fishermen,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He could not stand their din;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And so he quietly stole off,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">As if it were no sin.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">She was a little maiden,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He met her on the sand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“And how d’you do?” the lobster said,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“Why don’t you give your hand?”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For why she edged away from him</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He <i>could</i> not understand.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Excuse me, Sir,” the maiden said,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“Excuse me, if you please,”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And put her hands behind her back,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And doubled up her knees,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“I always thought that lobsters were</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A little apt to squeeze.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_50"></a>[50]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page50" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page50.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_51"></a>[51]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page51" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page51.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Your ignorance,” the lobster said,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“Is natural, I fear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Such scandal is a shame,” he sobbed,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“It is not true, my dear!”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And with his pocket-handkerchief</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He wiped away a tear.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">So out she put her little hand,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">As though she feared him not,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When some one grabbed him suddenly</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And put him in a pot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With water which I think he found</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Uncomfortably hot.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">It may have been the water made</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The blood flow to his head,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It may have been that dreadful fib</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Lay on his soul like lead:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This much is true,—he went in gray,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And came out very red.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52"></a>[52]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page52" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page52.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53"></a>[53]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page53" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page53.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="NO_THANK_YOU_TOM"><i>NO THANK YOU, TOM.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They met, when they were girl and boy,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Going to school one day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And, “Won’t you take my peg-top, dear?”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Was all that he could say.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She bit her little pinafore,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Close to his side she came,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She whispered “No! no, thank you Tom,”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But took it all the same.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They met one day the selfsame way,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When ten swift years had flown;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He said, “I’ve nothing but my heart,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But that is yours alone.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“And won’t you take my heart?” he said,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And called her by her name;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She blushed and said “No, thank you, Tom,”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But took it all the same.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And twenty, thirty, forty years</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Have brought them care and joy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She has the little peg-top still</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He gave her when a boy.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“I’ve had no wealth, sweet wife,” says he,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“I’ve never brought you fame:”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She whispers “No! no, thank you, Tom!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">You’ve loved me all the same!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54"></a>[54]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page54" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page54.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55"></a>[55]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page55" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page55.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_BUNCH_OF_FLOWERS"><i>A BUNCH OF FLOWERS.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">It was only a bunch of flow’rets wild,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Gathered by children one morning fair;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And it went away in the twilight gray</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To the mighty city’s din and glare.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the great grand flow’rs in the market smiled</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the little bunch of flow’rets wild;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the crowding passers had but a care</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For the many flow’rs that were rich and rare.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A mother stopt in the market place,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">She saw the flow’rets shining there,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And she thought of her child, with his wan, thin face,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Pining all day in the London square.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She left those lordly, blazing flow’rs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She thought of her far-off childhood hours;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She took that bunch of flow’rets wild—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her dearest gift to her crippled child.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And she spoke to him of the thousand ones</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Who toiled in the city hour by hour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who never had seen the country suns,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And never had plucked a country flow’r,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And a new light shone in his mournful eyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He hushed his sad, complaining cries;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For that little bunch of flow’rets wild</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Had changed the life of the crippled child.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a>[56]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page56" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page56.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57"></a>[57]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page57" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page57.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58"></a>[58]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page58" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page58.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_CHILDRENS_SONG"><i>THE CHILDREN’S SONG.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">What is the song the children hear,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O pealing bells, O Christmas bells,</div> - <div class="verse indent8">Echoing high and low,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When skies are dark and winds are drear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What is the song the children hear</div> - <div class="verse indent8">Across the winter snow?</div> - <div class="verse indent10"><i>Christ is born</i> (the joy-bells ring)</div> - <div class="verse indent10"><i>Christ is born to be your King,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent10"><i>Christ has come from Heaven to bring</i></div> - <div class="verse indent14"><i>Peace to earth below.</i></div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">What is the song the children sing,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A carol sweet all hearts to greet,</div> - <div class="verse indent8">Good news for high and low?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What is the news the children bring,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What is the song the children sing</div> - <div class="verse indent8">As through the streets they go?</div> - <div class="verse indent10"><i>Christ is born</i> (the children sing),</div> - <div class="verse indent10"><i>Christ is born to be our King,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent10"><i>Christ has come from Heaven to bring</i></div> - <div class="verse indent14"><i>Peace to earth below.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59"></a>[59]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page59" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page59.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60"></a>[60]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page60" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page60.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_BOUGH_OF_HOLLY"><i>A BOUGH OF HOLLY.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He sat on Christmas morn alone,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">No friend to bid him cheer;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He missed them not, though all were gone,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Who loved him yester-year.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And gaily rang the Christmas bells,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Their wondrous tale of old;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He heard no meaning in their sound,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He sate and hugged his gold.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He watched the happy folks go by,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He scowled to see them glad,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And then a little maid drew nigh,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A holly bough she had.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She lifts her pleading face to him,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">She begs in accents wild:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What is it makes his eyes grow dim?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Why does he call the child?—</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He seems to see his mother’s face,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Who died long years ago,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the holly bough he knelt to place</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Upon her grave of snow.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He listened to the Christmas bells,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He felt their meaning then:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peace upon earth, and in his heart</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Peace and good-will to men!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61"></a>[61]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page61" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page61.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62"></a>[62]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page62" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/page62.jpg" alt=""> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_END"><i>THE END.</i></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The old milestone is reached at last,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And night will be upon us soon;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The western light is changing fast,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And slowly climbs the crescent moon.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The path that we have trod erewhile</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Stretches behind us, growing gray,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And here we stand beside the stile</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That ends our journey for to-day.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Our twilight talks have gone so fast,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Like all things glad, it so must be;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The old milestone is reached at last,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That means good-bye for you and me.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">But we will have no mournful chimes,</div> - 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