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Dedication vii
Betty 15
Two Calls 16
A New Year Song 19
New Year 20
A Lesson Song 24
The Rubber Baby 26
The Red, White and Blue 28
Totty’s Christmas 29
A Certain Boy 32
The New Sister 33
Buttercup Gold 35
One Afternoon 42
The Stove 43
John’s Sister 44
New Year Song 45
What Was Her Name 46
A Lesson Song 49
The Patient Cat 52
Mathematics 53
By the Fading Light 55
Tobogganing Song 58
Song of the Tilt 59
The Lazy Robin 60
The Boy’s Manners 62
Merry Christmas 66
Rinktum 67
In the Tunnel 69
Practising Song 71
Queen Elizabeth’s Dance 72
A Storming Party 74
At the Little Boy’s Home 75
Then and Now 76
Pleasant Walk 78
A Great Day 80
A Pastoral 82
Riches 84
Poverty 85
The Best of All 87
A Study Hour 89
The Young Ladies 90
The Weathercock 92
Ichthyology 93
A Happy Morning 98
Lilies and Cat-Tails 99
The Metals 104
The Howlery Growlery Room 109
The Speckled Hen 113
The Money Shop 116
A Long Afternoon 121
The Jacket 122
The Fireworks 124
Jingle 126
See-Saw 127
Nancy’s Nightmare 129
Amy’s Valentine 131
Once Upon a Time 133
The Pathetic Ballad of Clarinthia Jane Louisa 134
A Day in the Country 135
Goosey Lucy 136
Goosey Lucy’s New Year’s Calls 139
Three Little Birds 142
The Quacky Duck 143
New Year Thoughts 144
Nonsense 145
The Singular Chicken 147
The Clever Parson 148
The Purple Fish 155
Mr. Somebody 157
A Christmas Ride 159
A Funny Fellow 161
Woffsky-Poffsky 162
April and the Children 163
The Snowball 165
A Great Fight 168
Hallelujah! 171
Lullaby 172
Merry Christmas 173
The Little Dog with the Green Tail 175
Naughty 180
Hard Times 180
On the Steeple 183
Naughty Billy 184
A Lad 184
Saint Valentine’s House 185
The Gentleman 187
A Leap Year Boy 190
King Pippin 193
The Story of the Crimson Crab 194
Mother’s Riddle 196
King John 197
The Spotty Cow 198
The Button Pie 199
The Inquisitive Ducks 200
Queen Matilda 202
The Two-Shoes Chair 203
Ethelred the Unready 205
Poor Bonny 205
The Husking of the Corn 209
The Clever Cheese-Maker 211
The Spelling Lesson 214
The Person who Did Not Like Cats 216
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