Number two Joy Street

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NUMBER TWO JOY STREET

Line drawing of a house with a peaked doorway, windows, trees, and a triangular floating base decorated with checkerboard shading

THE AUTHORS AND ARTISTS

WHO, BY THEIR SKILLFUL FURNISHING

OF NUMBER ONE JOY STREET, HAVE

MADE POSSIBLE THE BUILDING OF

NUMBER TWO

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THEY

We found them in the little wood,

We found them suddenly one day:

We heard a tiny laughing sound

Close, close beside us on the ground,

And it was They.

We stood and looked, we held our breath;

The little minutes seemed like hours.

They did not speak, they did not stir,

But strange their little faces were

Among strange flowers.

There came a wind, there came a cloud;

The ferns were like a tossing sea....

We searched and searched about the place,

But they were gone without a trace—

How could it be?

Rose Fyleman.

Number Two Joy Street A Medley of Prose & Verse for Boys and Girls

G. K. CHESTERTON

WALTER DE LA MARE

A. A. MILNE

HILAIRE BELLOC

HUGH WALPOLE

LAURENCE HOUSMAN

MADELEINE NIGHTINGALE

EDITH SITWELL

HUGH CHESTERMAN

MABEL MARLOWE

VALERY CARRICK

B. KATHLEEN PYKE

MARIAN ALLEN

THOMAS QUAYLE

BLANCHE WINDER

ROSE FYLEMAN

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