Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 31
Next night the house with pleasure rang, For Polly girl had come ;The cricket on the hearth-stone sang,— And home once more was home. 14 PLAYTHINGS. [November, PLAYTHINGS. By Olive Thorne. … ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TOYS. The first toy is said to have been a rattle-box,—a symbol, said the thoughtful ancients, of theeternal agitation, which is the cause of progress.*The play-life of our nineteenth century babies be-gins with the same object, and the only genuinetoy to be found in all Africa…
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