The Barefoot Time

By Adelbert Farrington Caldwell

This book is a selection of little volumes of children's verse. It appears from time to time in "The Youth's Companion", "Ladies' World", "Farm and Home", "Outlook", "Sunday School Times", "Forward", and "The Independent"; and if in bringing them together, occasionally here and there verses a trifle beyond "the barefoot time" have crept in, perhaps they were not unintentionally admitted for "children of a larger growth".

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Apr 26, 2021
• ISBN: 4064066186791

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Adelbert Farrington Caldwell

The Barefoot Time

Published by Good Press, 2021

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EAN 4064066186791

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PREFACE

THE OLD FOLKS IN THE COUNTRY

WORK

QUEER LITTLE HISTORIANS

THEN AND NOW

BOB’S QUANDARY

FIVE SPINNERS

THE TENEMENT BABIES

A FISHING SEER

JUST A-WISHING

A PRISON HOUSE

THE LITTLE HAIR TRUNK

MR. FROG’S WISDOM

STRANGE PEOPLE

BOBBY DREAMED

HARD THINGS

HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP

A SUMMER TASK

CHARACTER

THE ATTIC RUBBISH

A WEED

REGRET

HIS CHANGE OF NAME

WITH OUTSTRETCHED CUP

THE CONQUEROR

FATHER’S ADVICE

ONE GUIDE

LITTLE POLLY MARY

TEDDY’S QUERY

THE SEVEN SLEEPERS

BRIDGES WE NEVER CROSS

A POOR TOWN TO LIVE IN

WITH THOSE WHO CAN’T KEEP UP

HEROES

IN SLEIGHING TIME

PROTECTED

GRANDMOTHER’S STITCHES

FOUR TO ONE

THE NEW GLASSES

THE TWO WAYS

A WISE WAITING

THE VISITANT

WORK AND WORRY

THE PRIZE WINNER

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

A BEAUTIFUL RESULT

THE CRIPPLED HERO

MR. BUSHEL’S HOSPITALITY

THE WISH-MAN

A LITTLE MATHEMATICIAN

THE CASTLE OF MY DREAMS

THE PASTURE BARS

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Many of the selections of this little volume of child’s verse have appeared from time to time in The Youth’s Companion, Ladies’ World, Farm and Home, Outlook, Sunday School Times, Forward, and The Independent; and if, in bringing them together, occasionally here and there verses a trifle beyond the barefoot time have crept in, perhaps they were not unintentionally admitted for children of a larger growth.

A. F. C.

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THE BAREFOOT TIME

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Oh, the golden age of the barefoot time,

While life was a fairy tale sung in rhyme,

When phantoms grim of a future day

Were hid in the mists of the far away;

When we carved for ourselves from our June daydreams

(Only yesterday now it seems),

Statues of greatness, Jim and I,

In the mystical realm of the By-and-By!

Off for a swim on an afternoon,—

The moments—why would they fly so soon!

At the gate stood mother, who never was strong:

I shall worry, boys, if you stay too long.

Gone