THEIR FIRST KISS
Land of Play
Verses—Rhymes—Stories
Selected by
Sara Tawney Lefferts
Illustrated by
M. L. Kirk & Florence England Nosworthy
New York
Cupples & Leon Company
Copyright, 1911, by
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY
Printed in U.S.A.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Acknowledgment is due the following publishers and authors, fortheir courteous permission to use material on which they hold copyright:
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for permission to use “Hiawatha’s Childhood,”“The Heights by Great Men Reached,” by Henry W. Longfellow;“Barefoot Boy,” by John G. Whittier; “Chippy Chirio,” by John Burroughs;“What the Winds Bring,” by Edmund Clarence Stedman;“Fable,” “Duty,” by Emerson; “The Brown Thrush,” by Lucy Larcom;“April,” by Alice Cary.
The Century Co., for permission to use “The Little Elf,” by JohnKendrick Bangs.
Small, Maynard & Co., for permission to use “The Tax Gatherer,”by John B. Tabb.
Harper & Brothers, for permission to use “A Child’s Laughter,”from The Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Little, Brown & Co., for permission to use “The Swallow,” “There’sNothing Like the Rose,” by Christina G. Rossetti; “Boys and Girls,” byLouisa M. Alcott.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., for permission to use “Follow Me,”by Eliza Lee Follen.
New England Publishing Co., for permission to use “Our Mother,”from The American Primary Teacher.
The Reilly & Britton Co., for permission to use “The ChristmasStocking,” by L. Frank Baum (copy. 1905).
Sarah J. Day, for permission to use “Buttercups,” from “Mayflowersto Mistletoe” (G. P. Putnam’s Sons).
Kate Upson Clark, for permission to use “Charlie’s Story,” “Marjorie’sBath,” “Good Listening.”
Good Housekeeping Magazine, for permission to use “A DutchLullaby,” “A Dutch Winter,” by Ella Broes van Heekeren.
Newson & Co., for permission to reprint “A Story of Washington.”
Charles Scribner’s Sons, for permission to use “Extremes,” by JamesWhitcomb Riley, from “The Book of Joyous Children”; “My Shipand I,” “The Little Land,” from “A Child’s Garden of Verses,” byRobert Louis Stevenson, and “The Duel,” by Eugene Field.
—Robert Louis Stevenson.
Knowing how much good books are enjoyed by those whotravel through what Stevenson calls “The Land of Play,” ithas been a pleasure to select from the verse and prose of ourbest writers, old and new, the contents of this pictured volumefor “The Little People,” and perchance for some older travellerwho may