Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 299
holas. After we read the article about childrens book-plates, we invented a new game. We draw all sortsof designs for book-plates, using favorite illustrationsfrom our pet stories. For instance, the elephant whosat on some kegs and juggled glass bottles and eggswas made to sit on Jacks Book, which… … OUR BOOK-PLATE. Cats played hop-scotch with My Book. Browniesand elves ran in and out of Our Book. It is greatfun to see in how many and in what curious ways someof the quaint pictures in St. Nicholas will lend them-selves to such designs. Finally, we have chosen oneto keep permanently—the brave…
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