Front matter
Reading edition
'I watched, ... even as it were a Sparrow that sitteth upon the house-top'
MAKING A HOUSE
The Book of the Little Past
by Josephine Preston Peabody
Illustrated by Elizabeth Shippen Green
Houghton Mifflin Company Boston 1910 New York
COPYRIGHT 1903 BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY COPYRIGHT 1908 BY JOSEPHINE PEABODY MARKS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TO Alison AND OLDER CHILDREN
NOTE
Of the poems of child-life brought together in this book many are wholly new; some are reprinted from "The Singing Leaves," published in 1903; and others have appeared in Harper's Monthly Magazine, to the editor of which I am indebted for permission to reprint them. J. P. M. JULY, 1908