Miller, Olive Beaupré, ed, Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945, illustrator · Chicago : The Bookhouse for children · leaf 193
c picture thanthat of the Lycosa clothed in her young. From time to time, I meet a little band of gipsies passingalong the high-road on their way to some neighboring fair. Thenew-bom babe mewls on the mothers breast in a hammockformed out of a kerchief. The last-weaned is carried pick-a-back; a… … MY BOOK HOUSE berry-laden hedgerows. They go their way, penni-less and rejoicing. The sun is hot and the earthis fertile. But how this picture pales before that of theLycosa, that incomparable gipsy whose brats arenumbered by the hundred! And one and all ofthem, from September to April, without a…
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