Front matter
Reading edition
By
FLORENCE HOATSON
Illustrated by
MARGARET W. TARRANT
GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD LONDON CALCUTTA SYDNEY
To MY FATHER
First published 1925 by GEORGE G. HARRAP & Co. LTD. 39-41 Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2
Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, Edinburgh
Acknowledgment
The author's best thanks are due to the Editor of The Schoolmistress for permission to include many verses which have appeared in that journal; also to the Editor and Proprietors of Punch for courteously allowing the inclusion of "Hyde Park"; and to the Editor of the Daily News for permission to reprint "Christmas Eve."
HE WALKS ACROSS TRAFALGAR SQUARE, BECAUSE HE KNOWS THE PIGEONS THERE
Contents
I. Field and Garden (All the Year Round)
The First Lamb The First Shoot The Bulb House God's Pictures Yellow Grey Girl Buttercup Gold The Green Bank of England A Day A Summer Picture Leap Year Songs of the Pine-wood A Poppy Song The Bird Bath Autumn Who? The Friend of Santa Claus Christmas Eve
II. Fairies
Hyde Park Moss Little Moth Fairies in the Cupboard Fairy Frilly The Snail and the Fairy When Fairies have a Picnic Fairy Gramophone A Wish
III. Home
Granny Blossoms Aunty's Album Aunt Matilda Aunt Matilda Again When Mummy has a Headache To Mummy Naughty The Little Drawer Mother and the Dark Influenza The Little Boy Next Door A Little Boy's Thoughts Two Dolls Tibby The Thin Cat Pussy Language Estella Dreams
IV. Stories
The Pixies on the Moor Jerry The Toys in the Cupboard The Pencil's Story New Year Brother Francis The Little Red Lamp (missing from source book)
The Little White Gate
A gate is made for shutting, and that is always right, But only when it's black, and brown, NEVER when it's white, Never when it's white, dears, and very tiny too; It always must be open for the fairies to slip through!
They choose a little white gate became it's clean and neat, They sit upon the topmost bar and swing their fairy feet; And if you say you love them they'll make a fairy din, And open wide the little gate and simply pull you in!