Aunt Louisa's nursery favourite : comprising Diamonds and toads, Dick Whittington, Lily Sweetbriar, Uncle's farm yard (1870)
Valentine, L. (Laura), d. 1899, Kronheim, Joseph Martin, 1810-1896, Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901 · London : Frederick Warne and Co. ; New York : Scribner, Welford and Co. · leaf 115
beautiful housewife,Full of buttons, and needles, and thread. Poor Lily could hardly help crying; But she knew that she must not be rude,So at once did her best by complying With her Uncle Bens whimsical mood. Hals blue eyes then opened still wider,—He thought her a fairy outright; But I think both… … At last Uncle John, the young curate,Came in, looking pale and careworn; He had worked for the service of othersTill eve from the earliest morn. And now he had come from a night-school; It had once been a mere robbers den;Where he tried hard to turn boyish vagrants Into honest and hard-working men.…
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