Lady Hollyhock AND HER FRIENDS
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Lady Hollyhock AND HER FRIENDS
HOLLYHOCK PLACE
LADY HOLLYHOCK AND HER FRIENDS
A Book of Nature Dolls and Others By Margaret Coulson Walker Author of “Our Birds and Their Nestlings” Drawings by MARY ISABEL HUNT
“The more things thou learnest to know and enjoy, the more complete and full will be for thee the delight of living.”—Phlalen
Garden City New York DOUBLEDAY PAGE & COMPANY 1917
Copyright, 1906, by Doubleday Page & Company Published, October, 1906
To My Mother Who has always known how to help little people enjoy themselves
O the fluttering and the pattering of the green things growing, How they talk each to each, when none of us are knowing; In the wonderful light of the weird moonlight Or the dim, dreamy dawn when the cocks are crowing. I love, I love them so—my green things growing, And I think that they love me, without false showing, For by many a tender touch they comfort me so much With the soft mute comfort of green things growing. —Dinah Mulock Craike.