E. NESBIT
Reading edition
TO JOHN BLAND
My Lamb, you are so very small, You have not learned to read at all. Yet never a printed book withstands The urgence of your dimpled hands. So, though this book is for yourself, Let mother keep it on the shelf Till you can read. O days that Pass, That day will come too soon, alas!
CONTENTS
1. Beautiful As the Day 2. Golden Guineas 3. Being Wanted 4. Wings 5. No Wings 6. A Castle and No Dinner 7. A Siege and Bed 8. Bigger Than the Baker's Boy 9. Grown Up 10. Scalps 11. The Last Wish