The Book of the Little Past

By Josephine Preston Peabody

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Apr 26, 2021
• ISBN: 4064066157746

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Josephine Preston Peabody

The Book of the Little Past

Published by Good Press, 2021

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EAN 4064066157746

Table of Contents

Illustrations

Making a house

The Busy Child

Sunset

Wind

Late

Cakes and Ale

The Journey

Pigeons Out Walking

Concerning Love

Curls

I Was Lost

Polite Visitor

The Mystic

Market

Little Side-Streets

Chestnut Stands

The Play's the Thing

Windows

The Masterpiece

Ode on the Dog

The Sorrows

Secrets

The Christmas Tree

Candle-Light

Cow-Bells

Thunder-Storms

Church-Time

Angels

The Beggar-Man

The Green Singing-Book

Wing-Sprouts

Early

The Wind's East

After-Word

Illustrations

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Making a house

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F

irst of all, I draw the Smoke

Trailing up the sky;

Then the Chimney, underneath;

And Birds all flying by;

Then the House; and every Window,

Watching, like an Eye.

Everybody else begins

With the House. But I

Love the Smoke the best of all;

And you don't know why!...

Here it goes,—like little feathers,

Sailing up the sky!

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The Busy Child

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I

have so many things to do,