{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4623", "width": "2995", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap. Copyright No.\\nShelf\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "WINKS\\nA BOOK OF RECITATIONS FOR BOYS\\nTHOUGHTS\\nA BOOK OF READINGS FOR THE\\nGIRLS AND BOYS IN TEENS\\nBY\\nALICE LEWIS RICHARDS", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0H\\n^H\\nw\\nLAI LA S SMILES", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "SMILES\\nA BOOK OF RECITATIONS\\nFOR GIRLS\\nBY\\nALICE LEWIS RICHARDS\\nAKRON, OHIO\\n1900", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "39070\\nLibrary of Concires*\\nTwo Copies Received\\nAUG 27 1900\\nCopyright entry\\nMo\\n7\\nOPY.\\nSECOND a\\nDc werod to\\nORDER DIVISION,\\nSEP 1 1900\\nCopyright, 1899\\nBY\\nAI,ICK IvEWIS RICHARDS\\n74W4", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nIN WRITING this little book of recitations it has\\nbeen the aim of the author to help fill a long-\\nfelt want, namely: A work written especially for\\nchildren; with recitations suitable for all occasions,\\nthat will please the children.\\nAny little girl can find in this book some piece\\nto speak, from the time she learns to talk until the\\ntime shall arrive for her to lay away her dollies for\\nother joys that come with later years.\\nA. L. R.\\n(3)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "My daughter, Laila Myrtle,\\nThough your years are only few,\\nThis book of Mama s Poems\\nI dedicate to you.\\nSome were written while you slumbered,\\nSome were written while you played;\\nSome the Muses brought to mama\\nWhile at grandma s you have stayed.\\nSome were written for your pleasure\\nCause you always liked to speak,.\\nSo I penned Only a Sparrow,\\nThat the moral you might teach.\\nWhen you are grown, my daughter.\\nAnd back upon your childhood look.\\nOh! how sweet will be the memories\\nOf the writing of this book!\\n(5)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nPAGE\\nRobin s Return ii\\nPapa s Best Girl ---.--_- 14\\nDoes Jesus Know 15\\nLila s Conclusion 17\\nEmma s Ideal -20\\nAlice s Choice 22\\nWhat Janie Thinks -24\\nMyrtle s Letter 27\\nOnly a Sparrow 29\\nMay s Apple-Tree 32\\nTeaching a Lesson -34\\nThe Little Crib Bed 38\\nRobin s Farewell -40\\nThe Foolish Flowers 43\\nGrandpa and Pet --46\\nWhen I Was a Baby 49\\nDot s New Leaf -51\\nDreaming, Sweetly Dreaming 53\\nThe Snowdrop s Cali, 55\\nWhen Brother Was a Sister 57\\nWe re Only Little Children 61\\nA Dream of Easter 62\\nMother Robin ---64\\nMabel Gray _-. 67\\nThe Naughty Crow --------69\\nThe Birds Good-Night 70\\nSanta s Queer Joke --72\\nLittle Sunbeams 76\\n(7)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8 CONTENTS\\nPAGE\\nWhere Do Babies Go ---_-__ -y\\nWhen My Kitty Was a Kitten So\\nThe Busy Little Housekeeper 82\\nGrandma s Pocket g^\\nWhat Good Is a Brother --.._- 35\\nMr. Hop-Toad ---_---_ gg\\nMinnie s Secret ---_.--_ go\\nNellie s Easter Eggs 92\\nWhen Dolly Was Sick _ _ g^\\nAuntie s Parlor gg\\nOff to School We Go -_---__ 100\\nClarabel s Valentine 102\\nThanksgiving at Grandma s 105\\nDolly Days log\\nThat Giggle 112\\nMarion s Lament -113\\nWhen I m a Big Girl -114\\nWhat the Bells Said -116\\nWhy 118\\nBecause -\u00c2\u00bb-_--i2o\\nHo^v Hazel Kept House 122\\nDrops of Honey 125\\nWhexN My Dolly Went to School 126\\nThree Little Kittens 12S\\nThe Spider s Parlor 129\\nMother Goose s Dinner Party 132\\nOlive s Advice -136\\nThe Old and The New -137\\nPa s Ways i3g\\nThe Spider and the Bee ijj^2\\nKitty Bell 143\\nThe Birds Party 145\\nJanuary 14S\\nFebruary 149\\nMarch -150\\nApril -151\\nMay 152\\nJune 153", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Little girls with sunny smiles.\\nLittle girls with happy whiles.\\nWhen you through these pages look,\\nI hope you will enjoy your book.\\n(9)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "ROBIN S RETURN\\nA ROBIN came one day in spring,\\nFrom South he flew with tired wing;\\nHe looked around him then to see\\nAn old familiar cherry-tree.\\nThere grew one by the kitchen door.\\nRedbreast had seen that one before;\\nHe flew about, then lit up high,\\nAnd watched to see some one pass by,\\nA girl came through the kitchen door.\\nHer years, I think, just numbered four;\\nShe saw Redbreast, and called to him,\\nAs he perched upon that cherry limb:\\nOh, sweet robin! When did you come?\\nAre you hungry Do you want a crumb\\nAre you thirsty Do you want a drink\\nYou must be very tired, I think.\\n(II)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12 SMILES\\nSay, Sir Robin, why don t you sing?\\nOr don t you know that this is spring\\nWhere have you been this winter long\\nI missed, so much, your little song!^^\\nI flew about in a sunny clime.\\nSinging my cheer-up most the time.\\nAnd what did you, my little maid,\\nWhile I down South this winter stayed\\nWhen Christmas came we had a tree.\\nAnd that was nice for Lisle and me\\nTwas hung so full of things all new,\\nI wish that you had seen it too.\\nI got some blocks and he a drum,\\nI tell you then we had some fun!\\nWe got some dolls and whistles too.\\nAnd then we played, and then we blew.\\nWe got a sled and went to slide\\nWe went to town and had a ride;\\nWe popped some corn when days were cold,\\nAnd ate as much as we could hold.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "ROBIN S RETURN\\nOne doll got sick and had the croup,\\nAnother coughed with dreadful whoop;\\nAnd so, Redbreast, I think you ll see\\nI ve been as busy as I could be.\\nAnd now, Redbreast, where is your mate\\nWhat made her stay down South so late\\nWhy don t she come to build her nest,\\nAnd lay some eggs, and sit and rest\\nOh, she ll come soon, and then you ll see\\nWe ll build right here in this same tree,\\nAnd here we ll stay till cherries are gone,\\nAnd then sing you a parting song.\\n13", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "PAPA S BEST GIRL\\nI m mama s little baby,\\nI m grandpa s little lady,\\nI m uncle s little trouble,\\nI m auntie s little bubble,\\nBut, I m papa s best girl.\\n(14)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "DOES JESUS KNOW?\\nWhen the Easter chimes are ringing,\\nAnd the church choir gladly singing,\\nOf that Easter long ago;\\nWhen we sing the old, old story.\\nHow He rose from death to glory,\\nHow I wonder does Jesus know\\nWhen we re singing of His dying,\\nAnd our music turns to sighing\\nO er His suffering and His woe;\\nWhen we re singing of the morrow,\\nThat will never more bring sorrow,\\nHow I wonder! does Jesus know?\\nWhen we re singing of the flowers,\\nAnd of springtime and the showers\\nThat doth make the grasses grow;\\nWhen our songs are all of praises\\nFor the lilies and the daisies.\\nHow I wonder! does Jesus know?\\n(15)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "1 6 SMILES\\nDoes He hear us when we re singing-\\nDoes He hear the church bells ringing\\nAs they re swinging to and fro\\nDoes He hear us when we re praying\\nDoes He hear what we are saying\\nHow I wonder does Jesus know\\nYes, up in that land of glory,\\nWhere no one is ever sorry,\\nAll our heavenly music goes.\\nSo no longer will I wonder\\nIf He hears us way up yonder.\\nFor I m sure that Jesus knows.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "LILA S CONCLUSION\\nYou may talk about old Santa Clans,\\nWith his sleigh and fleeting deer;\\nYon may tell about his furry coat\\nAnd the jingling bells you hear.\\nYou may talk about the Christmas trees\\nWhich he loads with lots of toys;\\nYou may tell about the dolls and sleds\\nThat he brings for girls and boys.\\nYou may picture him in story-books.\\nWith a beard that s long and white;\\nYou may paint him when he s going down\\nThrough the chimneys in the night.\\nYou may tell the story o er and o er\\nJust the way twas told to you;\\nAnd I ve listened to it often,\\nBut I ve learned it isn t true.\\n2 (17)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "iS SMILES\\nYou may write about his pretty deer,\\nAs they climb upon the roofs,\\nBut it s very plain to any one\\nThat they can t climb up with hoofs.\\nAnd I know that Santa never went\\nDown a chimney in the night,\\nFor they all are dark and small around,\\nAnd they d squeeze him awful tight.\\nIf he ever did get into one,\\nThen he never could get out,\\nFor they picture him in story-books\\nWith a form that s broad and stout.\\nThen he can t come through the outside doors,\\nFor the bolts and locks are there\\nNor he can t get through the cellar door\\nTo climb the cellar stair.\\nNor he never could get over all\\nThis whole world in a night.\\nTo fill the little stockings up,\\nAnd get home before it s light.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "LILA S CONCLUSION 19\\nThen no one ever seems to know-\\nWhere the dear old fellow dwells;\\nAnd no one ever saw his sleigh,\\nNor heard his jingling bells.\\nIVe looked the maps all through and through,\\nBut his home I cannot find;\\nSo at last I ve concluded this:\\nThat he s only in your mind.\\nAnd this pretty little tale you tell\\nTo the babies may be told;\\nBut twill hardly do for me to hear,\\nFor I ve grown too big and old.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "EMMA S IDEAL\\nI LIKE to see a handsome boy,\\nWith good and honest face;\\nThe one who has a twinkling eye\\nAnd form of manly grace.\\nI like to see him go to school,\\nAnd like to see him play;\\nBut much, I fear, of what he does\\nIs time just thrown away.\\nI much admire the little man\\nWho brings the coal and wood;\\nAnd helps his mama when she s tired,\\nAs every good boy should.\\nI like the boy who never steals\\nThe pie upon the shelf;\\nAnd never hunts the cookies up\\nTo eat them all himself.\\n(20)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "EMMA S IDEAL 21\\nI like the boy who heeds advice,\\nAnd does as he should do;\\nAnd so I like the thoughtful lad\\nWho s good to sister too.\\nAnd thus you see my views are plain,\\nAnd when I older grow\\nI sometimes think I guess may be\\nThat I shall have a beau.\\nBut he must be the model lad,\\nWho does not chew nor swear;\\nAnd he must be a temperance boy,\\nWho goes not on a tear.\\nHe must not speak of parents dear,\\nRegardless of respect;\\nHe must not call them fogies old,\\nNor their advice reject.\\nAnd so the one that I will take,\\nAnd love him as a brother,\\nWill be the good, old-fashioned boy,\\nWho always minds his mother.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "ALICE S CHOICE\\nI d ruther be a little girl\\nAn have a lovely doll,\\nThan be a boy with a pistol toy,\\nOr have a bat an ball.\\nI d ruther be a little girl,\\nCause they are sweeter far\\nThan all the boys with all their noise,\\nNo differns who they are.\\nFor little girls is always good.\\nAn try to do their part;\\nBut boys will shirk their share of work,\\nAn think they re acting smart.\\nAn little boys is naughty too.\\nAn often tease us girls.\\nAbout our dresses an our tresses,\\nAn pull our pretty curls.\\n(22)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "ALICE S CHOICE 23\\nThey laugh at us jess cause we cry\\nWhen we gits hurt at play;\\nBut we don t care, they do their share\\nOf cry in every day.\\nThey calls us little frady-calves,^^\\nCause we s afeard of mice,\\nAn dogs, an cats, an snakes, an rats,\\nAn other things not nice.\\nBut we d ruther all be little girls,\\nAn let them call us babies,\\nThan all the boys with pistol toys.\\nFor they don t grow to ladies.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "WHAT JANIE THINKS\\nI d like to see old Santa Claus\\nAnd find out who he really was.\\nI think twould be a pretty sight\\nTo see him coming in the night.\\nAnd watch him on the housetops ride,\\nThen see him down the chimneys glide.\\nI think it s very, very queer\\nThe way he comes round every year.\\nFor no one ever ^ees or knows\\nJust how he comes or how he goes.\\nAnd how he can so quiet be,\\nIs the very strangest part to me.\\nBut Christmas morn, in early dawn,\\nWe re sure to find he s come and gone;\\n(24)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "WHAT J AN IE THINKS 25\\nFor there upon our Christmas tree\\nAre toys for brothers and for me.\\nBut not a mark, or not a track,\\nDoes he ever leave when going back.\\nAnd so I ve wondered many a time\\nHow Santa could the chimney climb.\\nI think twould be a better way\\nTo travel round by light of day;\\nThan go a-prowling round at night\\nLike burglars do, to keep from sight.\\nThen little children all could see\\nWho their good Santa Claus might be.\\nAnd then we d know, without being told.\\nIf Santa Claus was young or old.\\nIf he was fat, or very thin,\\nIf he had whiskers on his chin.\\nIf he w^as short or very tall\\nWhy, girls like us would know it all.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "2 6 SMILES\\nThen how much nicer it would be\\nFor him to come when we could see,\\nThan always come when we re asleep,\\nSo none of us at him can peep.\\nI think I ll write him just a line\\nAnd say Please come some other time\\nFor I don t think it looks just right\\nFor you to always come at night.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "MYRTLE S LETTER\\nI THINK I will write to old Santa,\\nAnd ask for a few little things;\\nAnd then I will try to be patient,\\nAnd wait to see what he brings.\\nI ll write him to bring me a dolly,\\nWith eyes of a beautiful brown,\\nWith hair that is all in gold ringlets,\\nAnd dressed in a beautiful gown.\\nI ll ask him to bring me a buggy,\\nTo take my new dolly to ride;\\nI ll ask for a cunning, swift runner,\\nSo dolly can go out to slide.\\nI ll write him to bring me a banjo,\\nA harp, and a cute little drum;\\nI ll wish for a sweet-toned organ\\nAnd a whole big box full of gum.\\n(27)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "2 8 SMILES\\nI want him to bring a wee table,\\nThat is made for girlies like me;\\nAnd a set of little blue dishes,\\nSo I can have company to tea.\\nI ll hint that I need some new dresses,\\nFor mine are all faded and old;\\n1*11 tell him I need some new mittens,\\nTo wear when the weather is cold.\\nBut maybe I d better stop wishing,\\nAnd finish my letter with care.\\nFor fear dear old Santa may fancy\\nI m asking for more than my share.\\nI ll write him my stocking is hanging\\nRight close to my head, on the wall;\\nI ll tell him the right way to manage\\nIn case that my stocking s too small.\\nI ll tell him to look in the corner,\\nAt the foot of the bed, he ll see\\nA place that I think is just lovely\\nTo fasten a cute little tree.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "ONLY A SPARROW\\nA SPARROW flew to my window one day,\\nAnd in a bird s way he began there to say:\\nChirp, chirp, little girl, please listen to me\\nI m hungry and cold as a sparrow can be!\\nI d like a small crumb or something to eat,\\nAnd may I come in and warm my poor feet\\nThey re almost frozen out here in the snow;\\nSo kind little girl, please do not say no.\\nI listened to him and then shook my head;\\nAnd to that poor sparrow I saucily said:\\n^^Well, Mr. Sparrow, if your story is true,\\nI don t think I ll trouble myself about you.\\nYou re a plain-looking bird with a dirty old coat,\\nAnd you never once sang a sweet little note\\nSo, Mr. Sparrow, you may just fly along,\\nFor I feed none but birds of beauty and song.\\n(29)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30 SMILES\\nBut think, little girl, were you a bird like me,\\nAnd were out in the cold with your home in a tree,\\nAnd you came to my house in the cold, deep\\nsnow,\\nWould you think it were kind if I treated you so\\nWould you think it quite right to be twitted that\\nway,\\nJust because of your coat was not handsome and\\ngay?\\nWould you think it would be nice if you could\\nnot sing\\nTo be counted as naught but a poor useless\\nthing\\nI know I m not handsome, and my chirp is not\\nsweet,\\nI know I m not loved by the most that I meet;\\nBut I m just as God made me, a plain little bird,\\nAnd have, in this world, a right to be heard.\\nAnd the birds of great beauty you like to see.\\nIn the sight of our Maker are no better than me.\\nSo I bid you adieu, my proud little miss.\\nBut some time I pray you will just think of this:", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "ONLT A SPARROW 31\\nThat kind little deeds by a good little child\\nSo often will tame a nature that s wild.\\nThen always be kind and never be rude,\\nAnd hold to your tongue in an angry mood.^*\\nThen he nodded his head and flew far away,\\nAnd I saw him no more that cold winter day.\\nBut, oh! how sorry and grieved was I then,\\nWhen I saw how very unkind I had been.\\nHe was only a sparrow, so humble and plain,\\nBut the lesson he taught me Vv^ill always remain.\\nAs I journey through life I shall keep it in mind,\\nAnd never again will I act so unkind.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "MAY S APPLE-TREE\\nOne April day\\nOur little May\\nDid plant an apple-tree;\\nAlthough twas slow,\\nShe watched it grow\\nUntil its years were three.\\nShe oft would say,\\nIn her sweet way,\\nHow tall you going to be\\nI d like to know\\nIf you can grow\\nTo be as big as me\\nSo one Spring day\\nWhen little May\\nStood by her apple-tree;\\nWhat do you think\\nSome buds in pink\\nWere there for her to see.\\n(32)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "MAT S APPLE-TREE 33\\nShe laughed in glee\\nThose buds to see,\\nAnd smelt their sweet perfume;\\nAnd blossoms white\\nWere soon in sight,\\nUpon the tree in bloom.\\nThen apples green\\nSo soon were seen,\\nAs round as they could be;\\nAnd so they grew\\nIn sun and dew\\nUpon her apple-tree.\\nThen May did eat\\nThe apples sweet,\\nAs nice as they could be;\\nThen little May\\nHad her full pay\\nFor planting that one tree.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "TEACHING A LESSON\\nThey were gazing through the window,\\nOn a cold December day,\\nAt the pretty toys for children.\\nThat were shown in fine array.\\nOne was robed in richest raiment,\\nWith a face so bright and glad;\\nOne was dressed in poorest garments.\\nWith a face so wan and sad.\\nWhile they gazed upon the window,\\nSaid the rich one to the poor:\\nAin t it nice that Christmas is coming.\\nFor that brings old Santa sure.\\nOh he s going to bring a dolly,\\nAnd a lovely Christmas tree,\\nAnd some toys and nuts and candy\\nAnd some story-books for me.\\n(34)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "TEACHING A LESSON 35\\nDon t you know what he will bring you\\nLots of pretty toys, I guess!\\nAnd a cloak and pair of mittens,\\nAnd, perhaps, a pretty dress.\\nBut the little child made answer,\\nWith a deep, unbidden sigh:\\nSanta never comes to see me.\\nAnd I never knew just why.\\nNor I don t have pretty playthings\\nLike some other children do;\\nNor the toys and nuts and candy\\nThat old Santa brings to you.\\nFor we live down in an alley.\\nIn a house that s poor and old;\\nAnd we scarcely can keep warm\\nWhen the nights are chill and cold.\\nAnd my mama sews to keep us.\\nSo it s all that she can do\\nWith the little that she s earning\\nJust to feed and clothe us two.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "36 SMILES\\nSo, perhaps, that s why old Santa\\nNever knocks upon our door,\\nCause he don t care for the children\\nOf the people who are poor.^^\\nTo the little child of plenty,\\nTwas a story strange, but true,\\nThat her Santa was so partial.\\nAnd would give to such a few.\\nHome she ran and told her mama\\nAll the story, strange and sad:\\nHe s a naughty, naughty Santa,\\nSo I ll make the children glad.\\nI will just make up some bundles\\nOf the things he brings to me,\\nThen I ll play that I am Santa,\\nWith a pretty Christmas tree.\\nAnd I ll go down the alley\\nAnd that little girl I ll find;\\nThat will teach him such a lesson!\\nOne, I think, he ll always mind.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "TEACHING A LESSON 37\\nThen I ll write a different letter\\nFrom the ones he s had before;\\nAnd I ll tell him it s his duty\\nJust to stop at every door.\\nThat, I guess, will set him thinking\\nAll about his conduct here;\\nThen the poor he will remember\\nWhen he comes another year.\\nSo out went the little Santa\\nWith the bundles from her tree;\\nAnd she passed not by a doorway\\nWhere she found that want might be.\\nAnd the lesson for old Santa\\nIn her childish way she taught\\nTo the selfish ones about her,\\nWho for others had no thought.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "THE LITTLE CRIB BED\\nThere s a little crib bed that is unused now,\\nAnd is stowed in the garret with care;\\nFor the wee baby girl that slept in that bed\\nWill never again dream there.\\nThere s a little old pillow of matted down,\\nBut no more twill be tumbled at night;\\nFor the little babe s head that rested there\\nNow sleeps on a pillow more light.\\nThere s a little odd quilt of an ancient style,\\nThat was pieced from the dresses she wore;\\nBut it lies in the bed now undisturbed,\\nFor the baby will kick it no more.\\nSo this little crib bed is stowed away now,\\nAnd the pillow is minus its case;\\nAnd the little, odd quilt, now faded and old,\\nIs neatly tucked in its place.\\n(38)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE LITTLE CRIB BED 39\\nIn memory again we only shall see\\nThe babe in her little, snug fold;\\nBut we treasure the bed, with pillow and quilt.\\nFor the baby it used to hold.\\nYet how happy the times in the olden days,\\nWhen the baby was sung off to sleep,\\nAnd the sweet curls lay on the pillow of down,\\nWith the quilt tucked over her feet.\\nBut the baby has gone to a chamber above,\\nThat is furnished in colors of light;\\nAnd the bed where she rests is one of ease,\\nWith a cover all spotless and white.\\nIn her picture again we only shall see\\nThe l-inglets of gold on her head [tall\\nFor her hair is done up and she s grown too\\nTo sleep in that little crib bed.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "ROBIN S FAREWELL\\nA ROBIN had come to bid me good-by,\\nAnd up in a tree had perched himself high;\\nHe seemed not to mind that the day was cold,\\nBut sang his sweet song the same as of old.\\nThe morning was drear and leafless the tree,\\nBut dear old robin! so happy was he!\\nI said to him, Robin, why do you wait\\nIt seems to me you are staying too late\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nThe weather is cold, the flowers are dead.\\nThe trees all their leaves have long ago shed;\\nYou d better be going before the snow comes,\\nOr hungry you ll be, and looking for crumbs.\\n^^And old Jack Frost will be after your feet.\\nThen you ll need your wing to cover your beak.\\nSo, Robin, please hurry away, or you ll freeze\\nIf you stay around here in the leafless trees.\\n(40)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "ROBIN S FAREWELL 4T\\nBut robin sang on, and, nodding his head,\\nDon t worry for me,^^ he knowingly said,\\nI m not a bit fraid of Jack or the snow,\\nThat s why I have been in no hurry to go.\\nIt won t take me long to fly away there.\\nWhere trees are all green and balmy the air;\\nIt s just a nice trip for this time of year.\\nAnd I ve made it before, so I haven t a fear.\\nBut, Robin, you know that the rain might fall,\\nAnd the day might end in a dreadful squall;\\nSo I cannot see why you have been so slow,\\nFor the rest have flown there long ago.\\nSay, what do you do in that far sunny clime\\nDoes Santa Claus come there at Christmas time\\nYou cannot go coasting, or skating on ice,\\nSo I don t think the South can be very nice.^^\\n^^When you are watching for Santa Claus sleigh.\\nHe travels down South in a far differ nt way.\\nIn a great air ship, with fairies for guides,\\nFrom chimney to chimney he quietly rides.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42 SMILES\\nWhen you are coasting adown some hill,\\nI ll be drinking from some rippling rill;\\nWhen you are freezing your feet on your skates,\\nI ll be sailing o er beautiful lakes.\\nWhen you are making a man out of snow,\\nI ll be tending some wild-flower show;\\nWhen you are trying your best to keep warm,\\nI ll be away from Jack Frost s harm.\\nBut now I am going to say good-by.\\nSo, dear little girl, for me do not cry.\\nI ll not be afraid though the journey is long,\\nFor my body is warm and my wings are strong.\\nBut if I grow tired and think twill be best,\\nI ll stop on the way and take a short rest;\\nAnd in the glad spring I ll come flying back,\\nAnd others will follow right on in my track.\\nSo watch for my coming and list for my song,\\nFor winter is short and you won t wait long^\\\\-\\nThen he sang unto me a robin s adieu.\\nAnd opened his wings and southward he flew.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE FOOLISH FLOWERS\\nMiss Chrysanth um gave a party\\nOn a cool October night,\\nAnd invited in the flowers\\nThat had tender buds in sight.\\nThen she whispered to the Pansy\\nThat old Jack was coming soon,\\nAnd he d nip her tender budlets\\nIf she left them out to bloom.\\nThen she told the grand Nasturtium,\\nThat was climbing up the wall.\\nThat if Jack should overtake her\\nShe was sure to have a fall.\\nAnd she said to Miss Petunia:\\nYou must find a hiding-place,\\nFor if Jack should chance to kiss you\\nHe would spoil your pretty face.^^\\n(43)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44 SMILES\\nAnd the other summer flowers,\\nThat were blooming rather late,\\nShe told them all to hide away.\\nOr they d meet a frosty fate.\\nSo they put their heads together,\\nAll the flowers that were wise,\\nAnd they planned to fool old Jack\\nWith his sparkling, piercing eyes.\\nBut the flowers that were foolish.\\nWhen she bade them take advice.\\nShook their heads of flowery beauty\\nAnd they laughed at frost and ice.\\nMiss Chrysanth um helped the wise ones\\nIn the plans that they had laid\\nSo they gathered leaves of maple,\\nAnd some coverlets then made.\\nWhen old Jack came stealing onward,\\nWith the stars all shining bright,\\nNot a flower among the wise ones\\nWas there left to greet his sight.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE FOOLISH FLOWERS 45\\nAll were hidden under covers\\nMade from leaves of Autumn s gold;\\nAnd Jack then failed to find them\\nThough he was so sharp and old.\\nBut the Marigold was laughing,\\nWhen he chanced to pass her by;\\nAnd Nasturtium still was climbing\\nO er the wall so old and high.\\nThen he blew his breath upon them\\nAnd they both began to sneeze;\\nSoon the tender buds and blossoms\\nOf the flowers began to freeze.\\nWhen the sun shone out next morning\\nO er the pretty flower-bed,\\nAll the wise ones were rejoicing\\nBut the foolish ones were dead.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "GRANDPA AND PET\\nGrandpa was holding his pet on his lap,\\nGrandpa and pet were taking a nap.\\nOff in far dreamland were grandpa and May,\\nLooking for goodies for Thanksgiving Day.\\nJogging along, he was holding her hand,\\nViewing the sights in funny dreamland.\\nLooking for turkeys, dressed tip in gowns,\\nShooing at goblins wearing bright crowns.\\nSmiling at puddings a-walking on legs,\\nLaughing at dumplings a-sitting on pegs.\\nOnward and onward went grandpa and May,\\nLooking for goodies for Thanksgiving Day.\\nHunting for turkeys stuffed and roasted,\\nLonging for bread buttered and toasted.\\n(46)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "GRANDPA AND PET 47\\nRound and round went grandpa and May,\\nHungry as two little children at play.\\nFinding at last a table all spread,\\nGrandpa and May sat down at the head.\\nLooking it o er some goodies they spied,\\nSee Grandpa, see little May cried\\nThere s a turkey stuffed and roasted\\nThere s some bread buttered and toasted!\\nThere s some dumplings sitting on pegs!\\nThere s a pudding standing on legs!\\nThere s a clock that s mountains high,\\nReaching up against the sky\\nSoon the clock began to chime.\\nEverything marched off in line.\\nRound and round in giddy whirl.\\nPassed the man and little girl.\\nPet and grandpa watched them all,\\nWond ring that they did not fall.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48 SMILES\\nHe helped himself and little May,\\nAs the turkey came their way;\\nPiled their plates up full and high,\\nAs the rest came marching by.\\nJust as grandpa took a bite,\\nSleeping pet then moved a mite.\\nSlipped and fell from grandpa s lap.\\nRight then ended grandpa s nap.\\nBack, from dreamland came the two,\\nSorry that their trip was through.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "WHEN I WAS A BABY\\nWhen I was a baby\\nThey said I was sweet\\nI d such dimpled hands\\nAnd soft, little feet.\\nMy head, it was bald,\\nMy teeth had not come;\\nBut then just the same\\nI chewed my own gum.\\nMy eyes they were blue,\\nMy lips they were thin.\\nMy cheeks they were dimpled.\\nAnd so was my chin.\\nI was very good-natured.\\nFull of frolic and fun;\\nAnd they said I was cute\\nFor a baby so young.\\n(49)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50 SMILES\\nAnd when I grew older\\nI learned how to talk;\\nAnd soon after creeping,\\nI learned how to walk.\\nI trotted about\\nMost all of the day;\\nAnd got into mischief\\nWhen I wasn t in play.\\nI ve kept on growing\\nAnd now am quite tall\\nAnd think it much nicer\\nThan being so small.\\nI m growing much older\\nAnd soon will be eight;\\nAnd so long to grow big\\nI scarcely can wait.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "DOT S NEW LEAF\\nAs Dot sat by the fire one night,\\nShe thought of times gone past;\\nOf summer days, of romps, and plays,\\nOf school, and its hard task.\\nShe thought of times of misspelled words,\\nAnd numbers hard to sum.\\nOf tardy lines, and awful times.\\nAnd scales she could not run.\\nSo Dot resolved that winter night,\\nThe new year she would try\\nTo study well, and learn to spell,\\nAnd sing the scale up high.\\nSo when began the winter term.\\nAnd Dot went off to school.\\nShe with the rest then tried her best\\nTo learn each little rule.\\n(51)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "52 SMILES\\nThotig-h little Dot meant all she said,\\nSomehow twas hard to do;\\n*Twas greater fun to slide or run\\nThan multiply by two.\\nThe seat grew hard, the teacher cross,\\nAnd lessons harder got;\\nI d rather skate than use my slate,\\nSo mused poor little Dot.\\nWhen time wore on to balmy days,\\nWith sunshine and with showers;\\nShe stayed away from school, to play\\nAnd gather wild-wood flowers.\\nSo when, at last, the school was closed,\\nShe dropped behind the class;\\nFor little Dot, her leaf forgot,\\nAnd then she did not pass.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "DREAMING, SWEETLY DREAMING\\nI HAVE tucked away my dollies\\nAll so snugly in their bed,\\nAnd I listened to the prayers\\nThat my little dollies said.\\nOh, they were so tired and sleepy,\\nFor they played so many hours;\\nBut now the3^ re dreaming, sweetly dreaming,\\nOf the birds and pretty flowers.\\nThey have played among the daisies.\\nAnd among the lilies too;\\nThey were romping in the clover,\\nAnd were picking violets blue.\\nThey have chased the shining sunbeams\\nThat came flitting from the skies\\nBut now they re dreaming, sweetly dreaming,\\nOf the birds and butterflies.\\nThey have picked the blushing roses.\\nAnd have kissed the starry bells.\\nAnd found the sweet forget-me-nots\\nWhere they bloom in flowery dells.\\n(53)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54 SMILES\\nThey have romped among the grasses\\nThat were fanned by evening breeze,\\nBut now they re dreaming, sweetly dreaming,\\nOf the birds and humming bees.\\nWhen the stars have ceased to twinkle,\\nAnd the sky is bright and clear;\\nWhen the sun is up and shining,\\nAnd the dewdrops disappear;\\nWhen the little fish are swimming,\\nSwimming in the sunny streams,\\nThen my dollies will be waking.\\nWaking from their happy dreams.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE SNOWDROP S CALL\\nCome, wake up/^ said the Snowdrop.\\nTo a Crocus sleeping nigh,\\nThe sun is brightly shining.\\nAnd there s blue up in the sky.\\nThe snow has left the hill tops,\\nAnd the frost is going too;\\nSo it s time that you were waking,\\nFor to show your face of blue.\\n^^Come, Daffodil, I m calling;\\nYou are sleeping much too long;\\nFor the bluebirds are returning,\\nAnd I ve heard the robin s song.\\nThe South wind is gently blowing,\\nFor I heard it mongst the trees*\\nAnd the Hyacinth is waking\\nTo perfume the gentle breeze.\\n(55)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "56 SMILES\\nCome, Jonquil, do not linger\\nFor the morn is passing fast;\\nIf you soon are not awaking,\\nYou will surely be the last.^^\\nThe Crocus woke up quickly\\nWhen she heard the Snowdrop s call;\\nAnd put forth her face of blue\\nWhen the snow began to fall.\\nShe shivered in the snowflakes\\nThat fell about her feet;\\nThen was sorry she was wakened\\nFrom her winter s quiet sleep.\\n^^You have called us all too early,\\nSaid the sleepy Daffodil,\\nFor the North wind still is blowing.\\nAnd the nights are cold and chill.\\nThen they all dropped back to slumber\\nTill the days some warmer grew;\\nThen their winter nap was ended,\\nAnd they woke and blossomed too.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "WHEN BROTHER WAS A SISTER\\nWhen brother was a little girl,\\nShe never wore her hair in curl;\\nBut she was very good and sweet,\\nAnd had the cutest dimpled feet\\nHer little hands were soft and white,\\nAnd so she kept them day and night.\\nHer dimpled cheeks were pretty too.\\nIn rosy tints of nature s hue.\\nAnd oh! such happy times had we,\\nMy little sister Lisle and me.\\nWe sometimes kept a little store,\\nAnd sold our playthings o er and o er.\\nAnd through the long, long summer day,\\nUpon the lawn we used to play.\\n(57)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "58 SMILES\\nWe played with dishes and with dolls,\\nWith dolly cabs and rubber balls.\\nShe helped to wash the dishes too,\\nLike little sisters always do.\\nAnd in her sorrows I could share,\\nFor sister was my only care.\\nAnd with a loving sister s arm\\nI used to shield her from all harm.\\nThen life for me was all a joy\\nBefore Lisle turned into a boy.\\nBut Time flies on his changing wnngs.\\nAnd many curious changes brings.\\nThe creeping worm becomes a fly,\\nAnd wings his way toward the sky.\\nThe golden g within the nest,\\nBecomes a chick with downy breast.\\nThe poUywog becomes a frog.\\nAnd croaks within his hidden bog.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "WHEN BROTHER WAS A SISTER 59\\nAnd little sisters turn to boys,\\nAnd leave their dolls for warlike toys\\nThen Time brought me the saddest day,\\nWhen sister s frocks were laid away.\\nThe little cloak and bonnet too\\nWere changed for cap and coat of blue.\\nAnd for the girl with sweetest face\\nA boy had stepped into her place.\\nA boy! and oh, so changed is he!\\nFrom the little girl he used to be.\\nThe dimpled feet are brown and bare,\\nAnd rough and tumbled is his hair.\\nThe rosy cheeks of nature s hue\\nSometimes they re black, sometimes they re\\nblue.\\nThe little hands so soft and white\\nWith dirt begrimed, they are a sight.\\nNow through the long, long summer days,\\nUpon the coalhouse roof he plays.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "6o SMILES\\nAnd on the roof he sits and fishes,\\nAnd never helps me wash the dishes.\\nHe scorns the sister s loving arm\\nThat used to shield him from all harm;\\nAnd for my loving, watchful care,\\nHe turns his nose up in the air.\\nOh! I wish he d never turned into a boy,\\nTo bring such woe instead of joy;\\nBut stayed a little girl like me,\\nFor then my life would happier be.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "WE RE ONLY LITTLE CHILDREN\\nWe re only little children,\\nAnd not so very wise;\\nSo don t expect too much,\\nAnd do not criticise.\\nWe came here for your pleasure,\\nAnd twould be hardly right\\nIf we should make mistakes.\\nFor you to laugh to-night.\\nSo won t you kindly listen,\\nAnd patience try to keep\\nDon t whisper to each other,\\nNor yawn and go to sleep.\\nWe re only little children,\\nBut think, when we are through,\\nYou big folks all will say\\nWe did as well as you.\\n(6i)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "A DREAM OF EASTER\\nWhen Nell her evening prayer had said,\\nAnd climbed into her snowy bed,\\nShe closed her little weary eyes,\\nTo dream of wonders in the skies,\\nAnd dream of days of long ago,\\nWhen her dear Savior was laid low.\\nShe saw Him nailed upon the cross.\\nAnd heard poor Mary grieve her loss,\\nThen saw Him laid within the tomb,\\nWhere all was dark as midnight gloom;\\nAnd saw the loved ones turn away\\nFrom where their dear, dead Savior lay.\\nShe heard an earthquake s rumbling sound,\\nAnd felt the shaking of the ground,\\nThen saw a white-robed angel band\\nDescend to earth from heaven land;\\nAnd at the breaking of the day.\\nShe saw one roll the stone away.\\n62", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "A DREAM OF EASTER 63\\nA glorious light dispelled the gloom\\nThat reigned within the Savior s tomb;\\nAnd forth He came, in garments white,\\nAmid the morning stars of light;\\nA shining crown was on his head,\\nFor He had risen from the dead.\\nThe band of angels sweetly sang\\nUntil the tomb with music rang;\\nThe birds cooed softly in the trees,\\nAnd sweet perfume was on the breeze;\\nThe sun arose in splendor bright,\\nTo shed o er earth his beaming light\\nWhen Nell awoke within her bed,\\nIt is our Easter morn,^^ she said,\\nSuch visions fair in sleep I ve seen.\\nFor Jesus rose up in my dream.\\nOut from the tomb I saw Him rise\\nAnd pass beyond the heavenly skies;\\nAnd with a band of angels fair,\\nHe went to heaven to dwell up there.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "MOTHER ROBIN\\nA ROBIN was sitting high up in a tree,\\nAnd was happy as ever a robin could be;\\nIn a nice little nest that was built by two,\\nShe was sitting on four small eggs of blue.\\nHer mate on a limb was sitting close nigh,\\nAnd thinking of birds that would come by-and-by.\\nHe always kept near that little home-nest,\\nAnd often would sit to give his mate rest.\\nWhen she grew tired of waiting so long,\\nHe would cheer her up with a sweet little song.\\nIn a very short time her sitting was o er,\\nAnd the birds in her nest numbered just four.\\nA sweet little girl lived near to this tree,\\nWho was happy as ever a girl could be;\\nShe had a nice doll, that had a nice swing.\\nThat had hung in this tree since early in spring,\\n(64)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "MOTHER ROBIN 65\\nOne day she was swinging her doll to and fro,\\nMother Robin was peeking at her below;\\nShe said: Little girl, little girl, look up to me,\\nI ve four little birdies for you to see.^^\\n^^O Mother Robin, I m glad they have come!\\nI ll go right now and bring you a crumb;\\nI ll bring one for your mate and each of the\\nfour,\\nAnd when supper is ready I ll bring you some\\nmore.^^\\nAll right, little girl, I wish that you would,\\nI m glad to see you so thoughtful and good;\\nBut I wish you would keep old Tabby away.\\nFor I know she w^as gazing up here to-day.\\nO Mother Robin, you must have no alarm!\\nFor Tabby, I m sure, will do you no harm;\\nShe s a good old cat and minds what I say,\\nBut I ll tell her again not to come this way.\\nWill you give me a birdie one of your four,\\nI only want one and not any more;\\nI have a nice cage I could hang in the tree.\\nAnd birdie, I know, would be happy with me.^^", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "66 SMILES\\nOh, no; little girl, it never will do\\nTo part with my birdie and give her to you;\\nShe never could live shut up in a cage,\\nAnd my mate, I fear, would fly in a rage.\\n^^Will you give me your doll? I d like to have\\none\\nFor my little birdies, you know they have none;\\nWhen they get older they ll all want to play,\\nAnd I ve room by my nest to tuck her away.^^\\nOh, no; Mother Robin, my dolly would cry,\\nIf she lived in a nest that was up so high;\\nWhen the wind blew my dolly would fall.\\nThen down would come birdies, nest, and all.\\nSo I ll keep my dolly, for I think it is best,\\nAnd you keep your birds till they fly from the\\nnest;\\nThey will be happier, I know, to be free,\\nAnd my dolly s contented to stay here with me.^^", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "MABEL GRAY\\nEarly to her slumber\\nWent little Mabel Gray;\\nRose up in the morning\\nJust at the peep o day.\\nBusy little maiden\\nWas little Mabel Gray;\\nDoing all her house work\\nBefore she went to play.\\nHelping in the kitchen\\nTo keep things shining bright;\\nDusting in the parlor,\\nAnd setting things to right.\\nSinging all the daytime,\\nFrom morn till dewy night;\\nShedding rays of brightness\\nLike stars of purest light.\\n(67)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "6S SMILES\\nBusy little woman,\\nAnd with a loving heart,\\nNever shirked her duty,^\\nBut always did her part.\\nCharming little woman.\\nAnd loving little wife,\\nEver bright and cheerful.\\nLived a long and happy life.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE NAUGHTY CROW\\nA BLACKBIRD was Swinging\\nOn a blackberry bush;\\nWhen there came an old crow\\nAnd gave him a push.\\nThen the blackbird fell\\nFrom the blackberry bush;\\nAnd the old crow crowed\\nCause he gave him that push.\\n(69)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "THE BIRDS GOOD-NIGHT\\nGood-night, said the robin,\\nAs he finished his song;\\nI am going to sleep\\nTill the morning doth dawn.^^\\nGood-night, said the bluebird,\\nAs he sought his snug nest;\\nNow the evening draws near,\\nI am going to rest.^^\\nGood -night, said the lark,\\nAs he hushed his lay;\\nI am off to my sleep\\nTill the break of the day.\u00c2\u00bb\\nGood -night, said the thrush\\nAs he trilled his last note;\\nI am off to my roost\\nIn the broad spreading oak.^^\\n(70)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE BIRD S GOOD-NIGHT 71\\nGood-nig-ht, said a maid\\nAs she nodded her head,\\nWhen you ve gone to your rest,\\nI am going to bed.\\nI have finished my work,\\nAnd have finished my play;\\nAnd am glad for the night\\nAt the close of the day.\\nI am sleepy and tired,\\nAnd I long for my bed;\\nFor the soft, downy pillow.\\nWhere I lay my wee head.\\n^^And to dream there sweetly\\nTill the sun shines bright:\\nTill then, my birdies.\\nGood-night, good-night.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "SANTA S QUEER JOKE\\nWhen Santa came one wintry night,\\nA pair of stockings hung in sight\\nJust side by side upon the wall\\nBut one was large and one was small.\\nWhen Santa turned and saw them there,\\nHe said: Well, that s a queer-matched pair!\\nThis girl is up to tricks I see,\\nAnd thinks she ll play a joke on me;\\nBut I ll look round and soon find out\\nWhat this fair miss has been about.\\nAnd then he took the stockings down,\\nAnd a folded note in one he found.\\nTwas written plain, so Santa read\\nEach line and wo-rd the wee note said:\\n(72)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "SAJVTA S ^UEER JOKE 73\\nDear, dear Santa, I hope you won t mind\\nBecause two stockings you happen to find.\\nDon t think I m greedy, that won t be fair!\\nFor one is grandma s you see hung there.\\n^^You have not filled it since she was young,\\nSo I hung it up to have some fun.\\nSo please, dear Santa, do not scold,\\nFor grandma now is getting old.\\nShe wants some specs, so she can see\\nTo knit some winter mitts for me.\\nThen twould be nice if you ve enough\\nSo you could spare a box of snuff.\\nSome gum to chew, some nuts to crack\\nI m sure you ve got them in your pack.\\nShe needs a cap with lace and strings.\\nSo, Santa, please give her these things.\\nThat s all I ll ask; if you ll do this,\\nI ll pay you some time with a kiss.*^", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "74 SMILES\\n^^This little girl, with heart of gold,\\nMust love her grandma now so old.\\n^^And it s all for fun Yes, yes, I see!^^\\nThen Santa laughed again with glee.\\n111 carry the joke as far as I can,\\nFor I like some fun, if I am an old man.^^\\nThen dropping his pack upon the floor,\\nHe looked its contents o er and o er,\\nAnd found a cap, some specs, and gum,\\nA whistle, doll, and little drum;\\nA nice red sled, and doll buggy, too.\\nOld Santa found as he searched them through.\\nInto grandma s stocking he stuffed the doll;\\nAlthough twas large, it wouldn t hold all.\\nThen tied with a string the sticks and drum,\\nAnd said Now grandma can have some fun.\\nThen into the other, the one so small,\\nHe stuffed the cap, specs, snuff, and all.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "SANTA S ^UEER JOKE 75\\nThen said to himself, the jolly old man,\\nI ve carried the joke as far as I can,\\n^^I d better be off ere grandma is waking,\\nOr maybe I ll get a jqlly good shaking.\\nThen should ring his pack till his form was\\nbent,\\nHe got into mischief wherever he went.\\nThen in the morning, when grandma awoke,\\nShe laughed, till she cried, at Santa s queer\\njoke.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "LITTLE SUNBEAMS\\nWe re a band of little children,\\nThat is gathered here to-day,\\nAnd we re working for our Savior,\\nIn our little childish way.\\nIn the path that lies before us.\\nIn this world of ours below.\\nWe will strive to do our duty.\\nAs w^e ever onw^ard go.\\nWe are as the light of morning,\\nThat comes peeping through the pane;\\nWe are like the rays of sunshine,\\nThat we welcome after rain.\\nWe are just some little sunbeams\\nThat are scattered here and there;\\nAnd without us little sunbeams,\\nThis great world would not be fair.\\n(76)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "WHERE DO BABIES GO?\\nWhere has baby gone to\\nAsks a mother dear;\\nWhy has darhng baby\\nLeft me lonely here\\nAnd my pretty home\\nGrown so still and drear\\nWhere are all the playthings\\nThat lay upon the floor\\nWhere s the little dolly cab\\nThat bumped against the door\\nIt s stowed now in the attic,\\nFor she ll never want it more.\\nSo she went and left us,\\nOur little baby May,\\nAnd we are so lonely\\nSince she went away.\\nThat we wish our baby\\nWould come back and stay.\\n(77)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "78 SMILES\\nThere s a dreadful longing-\\nIn poor mama s breast,\\nWhere her precious baby-\\nLaid her head to rest;\\nAnd slept so sweetly,\\nLike birdies in their nest.\\nft\\nWhere has baby gone to\\nSays mama with a sigh;\\nWhere has baby gone to\\nAnd a tear is in her eye,\\nAnd will my darling baby\\nCome back by-and-by\\nShe gazes from the window.\\nAnd sees the faces sweet\\nOf the pretty children.\\nComing down the street;\\nBut not a face like baby s\\nDoes she chance to meet.\\nSoon a winsome lassie\\nComes tripping into view,\\nWith head of flaxen curls,\\nAnd eyes of deepest blue,\\nAnd a loving heart\\nThat always beats so true.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "WHERE DO BABIES GO f\\nMama sees the lassie\\nThat took the baby s place,\\nWith the same blue eyes,\\nBut not the baby face;\\nFor the winsome lassie\\nHas one of older grace.\\nAnd that s where baby went to;\\nBut no one ever knows\\nHow the baby disappears,\\nOr how the baby goes,\\nOnly that a baby\\nEats, and laughs, and grows.\\n79", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "WHEN MY KITTY WAS A KITTEN\\nWhen my kitty was a kitten,\\nThat was many years ago,\\nHer was dest the sweetest kitten\\nOf any kitten that I know.\\nAn* her wore a ribby ribbon\\nThat was striped in stripes of blue;\\nAn* her purred the sweetest pur\\nWhen her didn t mew her mew.\\nHer was dest as good an* gentle\\nAs a kitten ever was;\\nAn was berry neat an ticular\\nBout her little pawey paws.\\nHer was full of fun an frolic,\\nAn her played wiv paper balls;\\nAn her sleeped her little sleeps\\nWiv my darling dolly dolls.\\n(80)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "WHEN MT KITTT WAS A KITTEN 8l\\nBut my kitty s growed a catty\\nAn forgot her cunnin plays;\\nAn her doesn t like my dollies,\\nSo her spits an runs aways.\\nNor her isn t sweet an gentle\\nLike my kitten used to was;\\nFor her scratches little misses\\nWiv her naughty scratchy claws.\\nOh! I s sorry that her s bigger\\nThan my kitten used to be;\\nFor a kitten s awful sweeter\\nThan a catty is to me.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "THE BUSY LITTLE HOUSEKEEPER\\nI s SUCH a busy little housekeeper,\\nAn dot so much to do,\\nI has to stop an* think a bit.\\nIf ever I tan git froo.\\nFor there s my dollie s bed to make\\nAn pretty dess to mend;\\nAn there s my little baby doll\\nThat I must stop to tend.\\nWhenever she wakes up at morn,\\nShe s sure to fret or cry,\\nUnless I rocks her for a while\\nAn sings a lullaby.\\nAn there s my little bruver Joe,\\nHe s such a naughty tease,\\nHe always wants my dolly boy.\\nBut never will say Please.\\n(82)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "THE BUST LITTLE HOUSEKEEPER ^i\\nHe makes such lots an lots of work\\nFor mama an* for me;\\nI often wish he was a fish\\nA-swimmin in the sea.\\nAn when I has such busy days,\\nAn dot so much to do,\\nTo care for all my dollies dear.\\nHe never helps me froo.\\nI musn t stop no longer now\\nTo tell you nuthin more;\\nI thinks I hear my dollie scream,\\nLike she s tumbled on the floor.\\nI has to go an git her now.\\nAn hush her up right quick;\\nOr maybe she will hold her breff.\\nAn then git awful sick.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "GRANDMA S POCKET\\nI HAVE a lovely grandma\\nWho s very dear to me;\\nI go to see her oftentimes\\nAnd sit upon her knee.\\nShe tells me pretty stories\\nJust what I like to hear;\\nShe thinks I m very nice, I guess,\\nAnd calls me little dear.\\nMy grandma has a lovely dress\\nShe s worn a long, long while;\\nShe made it all herself, she said,\\nWhen pockets were in style.\\nIt s made with pointed, ruffled waist,\\nThat has a surplice twist;\\nAnd has the old-time bishop sleeve\\nThat buttons at the wrist.\\n(84)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "GRANDMA S POCKET 85\\nThe skirt does hang- so nicely too,\\nAnd always looks so well,\\nIt has not any train to it.\\nNor was it cut a bell.\\nIt has a lovely pocket though\\nThat s big, and wide, and deep,\\nI always find out where it is\\nAnd slyly take a peep.\\nThere is something in my pocket, dear,^^\\nSays grandma every time.\\nFm sure to find a penny there,\\nOr else a silver dime.\\nIt s yours, my little girlie dear\\nSays grandma, with a kiss,\\nSo keep them all, my little one,\\nUntil you re grown a miss.\\nI m saving up my money now\\nTo buy a golden locket;\\nAnd have her picture placed in it\\nWith dimes from out her pocket.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "WHAT GOOD IS A BROTHER?\\nWhat good is a brother\\nI never could see,\\nBut only to tease\\nA poor sister like me,\\nAnd that is as naughty,\\nAs naughty can be.\\nHe s nothing but trouble,\\nAnd mania s great care,\\nAnd always in mischief\\nA-doing his share;\\nAnd no peace in the house\\nWhenever he s there.\\nHe hangs up my doll\\nAt the foot of the bed,\\nWith my new skipping-rope\\nUntil she is dead;\\nThen laughs at the tears\\nThat it makes me shed.\\n(86)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "WHAT GOOD IS A BROTHER? 87\\nThen he teases my kitty,\\nLike the bad boys do,\\nBy pulling- her tail\\nTill it s nearly in two;\\nThen whistles and laughs\\nWhen he hears her mew.\\nIf I had my wish.\\nDo you know what I d say\\nI d tell my poor mama\\nTo give him away\\nTo grandpa and grandma,\\nAnd there make him stay.\\nBut, then, poor grandpa!\\nHe never could nap\\nWithout a bad boy\\nCrawling up on his lap,\\nAnd whipping his knees\\nTo make them get-ap.\\nAnd poor, dear grandma,\\nSo patient and kind,\\nIt worries her so\\nBecause he won t mind;\\nAnd then her glasses\\nShe never could find.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "88 SMILES\\nI suppose I must live,\\nAnd try, if I can,\\nTo bear with his capers\\nUntil he s a man;\\nBut I do hope then\\nMy brother will see\\nWhat a lot of trouble\\nHe has been to me.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "MR. HOP-TOAD\\nA HOP-TOAD came out\\nOne day in the spring.\\nHe struck up a tune,\\nAnd began to sing;\\nThe weather was cold\\nAnd made his voice crack,\\nSo poor old hop-toad\\nJust waddled right back.\\n(89)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "MINNIE S SECRET\\nI ve got a little secret\\nI d like to have you know;\\nSo, now, I m going to tell it:\\nMy sister has a beau.\\nShe looks so sweet and pretty\\nWhen Tommy comes to call;\\nAnd talks so nice and witty.\\nAnd is so good to all.\\nI m afraid he s going to love her,\\nAnd marry her some day;\\nBut if he only knew her,\\nHe d think another way.\\nShe s awful cross to brother,\\nWhen Tommy ain t around;\\nI don t believe a crosser girl\\nCould anywhere be found.\\n(90)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "MINNIE S SECRET 91\\nShe says I am a bother\\nWhen she has got a beau;\\nAnd act so very stupid\\nBy telling all I know.\\nI only told to Tommy\\nThat she would lie in bed,\\nAnd let our tired mama\\nDo all the work instead.\\nI told him not to love her\\nFor she was awful cross;\\nAnd me and little brother\\nShe always tried to ^^boss.\\nI guess he s going to listen\\nAnd my advice he ll take.\\nHe said she must do better\\nOr she would get the shake.\\nI m just a-going to tell her\\nTo mind what she s about;\\nFor soon I ll be as big as her\\nAnd then I ll cut her out.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "NELLIE S EASTER EGGS\\nOld Biddy Brown, a nice old hen,\\nBelonged to little Nell;\\nShe hid her nest from all the rest,\\nAnd kept her secret well.\\nAnd every morn, just like the sun,\\nShe made her daily trip\\nUp in the hay her egg to lay,\\nAnd gave the rest the slip\\nBut one cold day old Biddy Brown\\nConcluded it was best.\\nThat in the hay she d better stay,\\nAnd take a little rest.\\nThey missed her from the chicken coop,\\nAnd from the barnyard pen;\\nAnd none could tell, not even Nell,\\nJust where to find that hen.\\n(92)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "NELLIE S EASTER EGG 93\\nThe days went by, the weeks sped on,\\nAnd still she hid away;\\nBut little Nell kept hunting well,\\nAnd found her in the hay.\\nNow, Easter time was drawing nigh,\\nAnd Nell, in colors bright.\\nWas going to taint, with brush and paint,\\nOld Biddy s eggs so white.\\nShe took them from the poor old hen,\\nWho d sat so long with care,\\nAnd in a tin she brought them in.\\nWhich really was not fair.\\nShe dabbled with those pretty paints.\\nTill shells were lost to view;\\nThen with delight she viewed the sight\\nOf eggs, in red and blue.\\nShe put them by the kitchen stove,\\nAnd covered them up tight.\\nTo keep them warm and free from harm,\\nAnd out of baby s sight.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "94 SMILES\\nThe next morn rang the Easter bells,\\nAnd Nell rose with a start;\\nHer playmates, some would surely come\\nTo view her work of art.\\nSo proudly to the kitchen then,\\nWith step so light and free,\\nWith happy look her playmates took,\\nThose Easter eggs to see.\\nBut what a change came over Nell!\\nHad some one played her tricks\\nTo her surprise, before her eyes\\nWas a pan of downy chicks.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "WHEN DOLLY WAS SICK\\nMy doll got sick one summer day,\\nAnd then I had to stop my play.\\nI tucked her in her little bed,\\nWith burning cheeks and throbbing head.\\nI knew that she was cutting teeth.\\nAnd that one thought gave me relief.\\nBut still I wondered as I had,\\nWhy her poor head should ache so bad.\\nShe seemed so ill for one so young,\\nSo I thought I d have the doctor come.\\nI sent for him to come come quick,\\nFor my dear Nell was very sick.\\nThen when he came he shook his head,\\nAnd this is what the doctor said:\\n(95)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "90 SMILES\\n^^She has the measles or some fever;\\nBut have no fear, I can relieve her.\\nI ll give her powders for her head,\\nBut you must keep her close in bed.\\nI ll give her quinine made in pills.\\nAnd they will cure those dreadful chills.\\nBut when your neighbors come to call,\\nDon t let them see your babe at all.\\nShe must not talk, nor even smile\\nSo keep her quiet for a while.\\nBe careful what you give to eat,\\nNow don t give salads or cold meat.\\nNor don t give biscuits that are warm,\\nFor they will do your dolly harm.\\nBut give her nicely buttered toast.\\nWith veal, or lamb, or mutton roast.\\nI watched beside her suffering bed.\\nAnd many were the tears I shed.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "WHEN DOLLT WAS SICK 97\\nBut soon a change came o er my Nell,\\nI saw that she was getting well.\\nOh, w^hat a joy it was to me,\\nTo know from pain my Nell was free!\\nBut she was very pale and thin,\\nWith faded cheeks and pointed chin.\\nThen came the doctor with his bills\\nSo much for powders, so much for pills.\\nI paid them all without a sigh.\\nAnd thanked him cause she did not die.\\n7", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "AUNTIE S PARLOR\\nMy auntie has a parlor grand,\\nThat s furnished very fine,\\nWith lots of pretty, fancy things,\\nThat cost her many a dime.\\nI like to peep into that room\\nWhenever I go there,\\nTo see those pretty, fancy things.\\nAnd find out what they are.\\nBut auntie always watches me,\\nJust like a cat a mouse,\\nAnd says You are a mischief, Belle,\\nWhen you are in my house.\\nThere s bric-a-brac on the mantel-shelf,\\nAnd pictures on the wall,\\nAnd pretty, high-back easy-chairs\\nThat spring up like a ball.\\n(98)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "AUNTIE S PARLOR 99\\nThere is a grand piano there\\nThat must have cost her much;\\nBut all I ever hear is this:\\nNow, Belle, you must not touch.\\nThere is a lovely stand and stool,\\nAnd rugs upon the floor.\\nAnd vases in the corner too,\\nBut a lock is on the door.\\nNow, what s a parlor good for, say\\nI d really like to know!\\nWith doors and windows fastened tight.\\nAnd pretty things for show.\\nI wish I owned that parlor grand,\\nAnd all those things so nice,\\nI d let my kitty go in there\\nTo watch for naughty mice.\\nI d tell the little girls I know\\nWho hadn t one so fine,\\nThat they were always welcome guests\\nTo come and play in mine.\\nLofC,", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "OFF TO SCHOOL WE GO\\nIn the morning when the sun\\nDoes begin his daily run,\\nWhen the stars have gone to sleep,\\nAnd no longer brightly peep,\\nThen we take a morning dine;\\nAnd before the clock strikes nine,\\nOff to school, to school we go,\\nSome on time and some are slow.\\nSome look pleasant, some look sour,\\nSome are whispering every hour;\\nSome are naughty, some are good.\\nSome, they study as they should;\\nFull of fun and full of play.\\nSo they see us every day.\\nOff to school, to school we go,\\nSome on time and some are slow.\\nSoon our lessons are all past.\\nAnd the day has gone at last;\\nSome, they learned them as they should.\\nSome, they did not get them good;\\n(lOO)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "OFF TO SCHOOL WE GO loi\\nSome are always staying late\\nFor mistakes upon their slate.\\nHome from school, from school we go,\\nSome on time and some are slow.\\nSoon we giils will older grow,\\nThen we ll wish so much to know,\\nSo to study we must try,\\nFor our time is flitting by.\\nDays and weeks are passing fast,.\\nAnd schooldays will ^oon be past\\nSo while off to S(^dOT we go,\\nLet s be on time and never slow.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "CLARABEL S VALENTINE\\nNow, who shall get my valentine\\nThought little Clarabel;\\nFor I must send it to some- friend\\nWho loves me very well.^^\\nShe thought of cousin Madaline,\\nA proud and haughty miss,\\nBut changed her mind almost as soon.\\nFor she would scoff at this.\\nShe thought of neighbor Bessie Brown,\\nBut she was rich and fair,\\nAnd every year her valentines\\nWere more than one girl s share.\\nAnd next she thought of classmates dear.\\nThen said their names all o er;\\nBut every year their valentines\\nWould number more and more.\\n(102)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "CLARABEi: S VALENTINE 103\\nSo who should get her valentine\\nShe thought and thought in vain\\nAt last she said: I ll keep this one,\\nAnd none shall have the gain.^^\\nJust then a little voice was heard\\nTo whisper in her ear:\\nThere s many a girl and many a boy\\nWho will get none this year.\\nSo, Clarabel, please think again\\nOf some poor children s plight,\\nWho never get a valentine\\nTo make their sad hearts light.\\nShe heard that voice, and then she thought:\\nI know what I shall do,\\nAnd where to send this valentine\\nAnd many others, too.^^\\nShe took her little money bank.\\nWhere she had kept her dimes,\\nThen swiftly to the store she ran.\\nAnd bought more valentines.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "I04 SMILES\\nShe sent them to the boys and girls\\nWhose pleasures were but few;\\nThen told her playmates what she d done,\\nAnd then they tried it, too.\\nSo many were the valentines\\nThat went their happy way,\\nAnd many were the girls and boys\\nThat had a happy day.\\nThey thanked the postman o er and o er,\\nThose hapless little elves,\\nBecause he brought them valentines\\nFor their own little selves.\\nAnd Clarabel was happy too,\\nAnd truly did believe\\nThat giving unto others\\nWas more than to receive.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "THANKSGIVING AT GRANDMA S\\nTwAS Thanksgiving on the farm,\\nAnd hurry everywhere;\\nFor Grandma Brown got word from town,\\nThe children would be there.\\nShe sent an invitation\\nA week or two ahead,\\nTo daughter Anna and daughter Hannah,\\nAnd this is what it said:\\nNow bring the children, every one,\\nAnd have a jolly time;\\nFor we ve our share, and some to spare.\\nSo bring them all to dine.\\nAnd let them bring their relatives,\\nAnd each a playmate too,\\nSo bring them all, both large and small.\\nWe ll have enough for you.^^\\nSo Nell and Dell invited Bell\\nAnd little cousin Prue,\\nThen Bennie Mills asked Jennie Bills,\\nAnd also neighbor Sue:\\n(105)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "io6 SMILES\\nThen neighbor Sue told brother Ralph,\\nAnd Ralph told cousin Nan,\\nThen cousin Nan asked playmate Sam,\\nAnd he told neighbor Dan.\\nGrandma said to grandson Roy:\\nNow bring your neighbor Ray.\\nSo neighbor Ray and sister May\\nInvited cousin Jack;\\nThen cousin Jack told neighbor Mack,\\nAnd asked his playmate Tess;\\nThen cousin Lottie asked cousin Dottie,\\nAnd also sister Bess.\\nThen sister Bess invited Richard,\\nAnd he invited Ned,\\nThen brother Ned invited Ed,\\nAnd also cousin Fred;\\nThen cousin Fred asked sister Ann,\\nAnd she invited Joe,\\nThen he sent word, so William heard,\\nTo bring his sister Flo.\\nThen sister Flo and her young beau\\nInvited playmate Tom\\nThey said to him Bring neighbor Tim\\nAnd also cousin Don.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "THANKSGIVING AT GRANDMA S 107\\nTell cousin Don to go along\\nAnd ask her neighbor Millie;\\nThen she will make her brother Jake\\nInvite his sweetheart Tillie.^^\\nWhen grandma s tables were all spread\\nFor little guests from town,\\nThe happy crowd then shouted loud:\\nThree cheers for Grandma Brown\\nThey listened while dear grandpa then\\nGave thanks for daily bread.\\nThen Will and Tim did both begin\\nAnd so did Tom and Ned.\\nThen Bennie Mills and Jennie Bills\\nAnd little Don and Sue,\\nAll waded in with eager vim\\nAnd so did Dan and Prue.\\nThen sister Bess and playmate Tess,\\nAte much of poultry meats;\\nWhile Ralph and Nell and cousin Bell,\\nAte many pickled beets.\\nThen Roy and Ann and Dick and Joe,\\nAte all of grandma s jam,\\nWhile Ed and Nan, Dell, Fred, and Sam,\\nAte all the eggs and ham.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "io8 SMILES\\nThen Ray and Millie, and May and Tillie,\\nAnd also brother Jake,\\nAnd Jack and Lottie, and Mack and Dottie,\\nAte all the broiled steak.\\nWhen all were through at dinner time,\\nThere naught remained but crumbs;\\nFor pretty Flo and her young beau.\\nAte all the sugar plums.\\nThen grandma smiled when she looked round\\nAnd saw the happy set,\\nFor she just knew, as grandmas do.\\nHow hungry children get.\\nWhen grandpa hauled the wagons out\\nTo take them back to town,\\nThey scrambled in, with childish din.\\nAnd cheered for Grandma Brown;\\nThey cheered for grandpa loud and long.\\nAnd called him Grandpa, dear,\\nHe said to them Now, come again,\\nAnd dine with us next year.^^", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "DOLLY DAYS\\nMy mama says that I m too old\\nTo play with dolls much more,\\nThat I must lay them all away\\nFor dolly days for me are o er.\\nBut what I ll do, I do not know,\\nWhen they re all laid away;\\nI know I ll sigh and maybe cry,\\nWhen I ve no doll with me to play.\\nThen with them all put out of sight\\nThe days will lonely be;\\nFor when I m mad, or when I m sad.\\nThere ll be no doll to comfort me.\\nThere s Maggie May, my eldest one,\\nThe doll that was so fine,\\nSanta let her drop from the chimney top,\\nAnd caused a crooked spine.\\n(109)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "no SMILES\\nShe s been a cripple ever since,\\nAnd such a fretful child,\\nShe s cried and screamed until it seemed\\nI really should go wild.\\nThere s sweet Marie, a pretty doll,\\nWith hair of golden hue.\\nWith cheeks so bright and chin so white,\\nAnd eyes of heaven s blue.\\nAnd Rosa Nell, another blond,\\nWhose temper is so mild.\\nThat every one, both old and young,\\nCould love the pretty child.\\nShe s broke her nose, but what of that!\\nShe always wears a smile.\\nShe s at her play the livelong day,\\nAnd sings most all the while.\\nThere s Lilla Dale, with tangled hair.\\nWho s lain so long in bed,\\nWhen very small she had a fall,\\nThat cracked her little head.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "DOLLT DAI S in\\nShe ll miss my care and I ll miss her\\nWhen she is laid away;\\nFor many a time I ve soothed her whine\\nBecause she could not play.\\nAnd Nellie Gray, the sweet brunette,\\nWhose hair was dark as night,\\nMy heart will ache and maybe break,\\nWhen she s laid out of sight.\\nShe s lost an arm and both her legs,\\nAnd only has one curl;\\nBut you may bet she s precious yet,\\nThis dear old darky girl.\\nBut now I m old; too old, they say,\\nI ve entered in my teens;\\nBut I ll look back o er memory s track,\\nTo happy doll-day dreams.\\nThere ll be no hours in years to come,\\nThat have been like the past;\\nFor dolly days and dolly plays\\nWere just too sweet to last.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "THAT GIGGLE\\nWhen I arose to speak one day,\\nI quite forgot what I had to say.\\nI thought, and thought, and tried in vain\\nTo bring it to my mind again,\\nAnd there I stood, with head downcast,\\nA-dreading what would come at last.\\nThe room grew dark, my heart grew sad^\\nI thought I surely would go mad;\\nI tried to speak, but not a word\\nOr e en a whisper could be heard.\\nMy limbs with palsy seemed to shake.\\nMy heart wiLh terror seemed to quake.\\nI heard a giggle clear and loud\\nGo rippling through the waiting crowd.\\nI could no longer stand the strain.\\nFor bursting seemed my heart and brain.\\nThen to my feelings I gave vent.\\nAnd weeping to my seat I went.\\n(112)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "MARION S LAMENT\\nI m such a lonely little girl,\\nAnd play all by myself;\\nI feel just like a broken doll\\nThat s laid by on the shelf.\\nAnd when I m tired of playing alone,\\nThere s nothing else to do,\\nBut wish I had a brother Joe,\\nOr little sister Sue.\\nI think I ll write to Santa Claus\\nAnd say I m lone and sad;\\nAnd if he ll bring a baby girl,\\nI ll be so very glad.\\nI think that he will bring me one,\\nFor Santa s good to me.\\nI ll tell him please to hang it on\\nMy little Christmas tree.\\n(113)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "WHEN I M A BIG GIRL\\nI ll try to be good,\\nAnd do as I should,\\nI ll learn how to work\\nAnd never will shirk,\\nWhen I m a big girl.\\nI ll do with my might\\nWhatever is right,\\nI ll study at school\\nAnd obey each rule,\\nWhen I m a big girl.\\nWith needle and yarn\\nMy stockings I ll darn,\\nI ll comb my own tresses\\nAnd make my own dresses,\\nWhen I m a big girl.\\n(114)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "WHEN I M A BIG GIRL 115\\nI ll learn how to bake\\nSome very nice cake,\\nI ll make my own bed\\nAnd mind what ma said,\\nWhen I m a big girl.\\nI ll dust, and I ll sweep,\\nAnd my dollies I ll keep;\\nI ll stow them away\\nTo look at some day.\\nWhen I m a big girl.\\nI ll lay away toys\\nFor some other joys,\\nI ll never make noise\\nLike the great big boys,\\nWhen I m a big girl.\\nNow, had I more time\\nI d tell you in rhyme\\nSome more that I ll do,\\nWhen I m big like you.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "WHAT THE BELLS SAID\\nOne Sabbath morn in lovely June,\\nThe old church bells rang out a tune.\\nUnto the world they seemed to say:\\nThis is our little children s day.\\nNow will you listen to our call,\\nAnd come to hear the children small\\nTheir songs in voices, sweet and clear,\\nUnto their Maker you shall hear.\\nTheir smiling faces are a sight,\\nThat turns all darkness into light.\\nTheir little speeches are so nice,\\nThat you should hear at any price.\\nTheir little songs in chorus sound\\nAs though there were no evil round.\\n(ii6)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "WHAT THE BELLS SAID 117\\nTheir prayers so humble, sweet, and pure,\\nWill make you feel that heaven s sure.\\nThen come you people, one and all,\\nAnd learn the ways of children small.\\nAnd live again those childish days.\\nBefore you learned the worldly ways.\\nTwill bring you back those youthful joys,\\nOf winsome girls and manly boys.\\nTwill give your soul an upward flight,\\nAnd bring your heaven just in sight.\\nAnd then the bells rang off their tune,\\nThat lovely Sabbath morn in June.\\nTo listen while the songs of love\\nWent to the Maker up above;\\nAnd listen while a childish prayer.\\nWas breathed upon the holy air.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "WHY?\\nI OFTEN sit and wonder why\\nIt is not always day,\\nAnd why the sunshine and the light\\nCannot forever stay.\\nI often sit and wonder why\\nThe birdies are so wild,\\nAnd what does make them fly away\\nFrom every little child.\\nAnd why they always like to sing.\\nAnd never like us talk,\\nAnd why they always like to fly,\\nAnd never like us walk.\\nSometimes I sit and wonder too.\\nAbout my pussy cats.\\nJust why they did not have some wings\\nLike ugly little bats.\\n(ii8)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "WHT\\nMy dolly is a mystery too,\\nAnd so I wonder why,\\nWhen I am washing dolly s face,\\nShe does not pout and cry.\\nft\\nAnd then it never seemed quite right\\nTo have the world turn round;\\nIt seems so strange we do not fall\\nOr tumble off the ground.\\nThere are so many other things\\nThat don t look right to me;\\nI sometimes really don t believe\\nThey re as they ought to be.\\n119", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "BECAUSE\\nNow what s the use of wondering\\nWhy tis not always day\\nFor we must have the night to sleep\\nSo we can rest from play.\\nAnd there s the little birdies too,\\nIt s all right they are wild;\\nFor it never w^as intended\\nThey should play with a child.\\nI d rather hear them singing sweet\\nThan hear them try to talk;\\nAnd rather see them flying high\\nThan see them try to walk.\\nThen what would be the use of wangs\\nUpon a pussy cat\\nBecause she could not catch a mouse\\nWhen flying like a bat.\\n(120)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "BECAUSE 121\\nThen what good could a dolly do\\nTo cry, or fret, or scream.\\nBecause her mama s gentle hand\\nWas trying to wash her clean.\\nAnd then I think it is all right\\nBecause the world turns round;\\nFor gravitation in the earth\\nDoes keep us on the ground.\\nSo then, to me, this world of ours\\nSeems just as it should be;\\nAnd with it all I m satisfied,\\nAnd hope it is with me.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "HOW HAZEL KEPT HOUSE\\nI m going to be the housekeeper,\\nWhile you are gone away,^^\\nSaid Hazel to her mama,\\nOne lovely summer day;\\nFor I can tend the baby,\\nIt s nothing more than play.\\nI ll play that I am mama\\nWith lots of work to do;\\nAnd then I ll call on brother\\nTo come and help me through\\nWith dishes and the sweeping,\\nLike papa does help you.^^\\nThen mama kissed her daughter.\\nAnd said a fond good-by;\\nBut gently did remind her:\\nDon t let the baby cry.\\nDon t burn the dinner pudding,\\nDon t boil the kettle dry.^^\\n(122)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "HOW HAZEL KEPT HOUSE 123\\nThere were dishes to be washed,\\nAnd kitchen floor to sweep,\\nAnd soon the precious baby-\\nTo rock and sing to sleep;\\nAnd dinner to get ready,\\nAnd a watch on pudding keep.\\nSo busy was our Hazel\\nWith dinner to prepare,\\nShe did not notice baby-\\nWas tired of her chair,\\nNor that her helpful brother\\nHad run away somewhere.\\nShe went to stir the pudding,\\nBut baby began to cry;\\nShe had to stop and rock her.\\nAnd sing a lullaby;\\nBut could not get her quiet,\\nNo matter how she d try.\\nShe called for helpful brother.\\nAnd thought he was around\\nBut no response was given.\\nNot one familiar sound;\\nFor little helpful brother\\nWas nowhere to be found.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "124 SMILES\\nThe noon hour was approaching,\\nWith dinner not in sight,\\nAlthough our patient Hazel\\nHad worked with will and might\\nTo have it cooked and ready,\\nAnd make the pudding right.\\nWhen papa came at noon-time,\\nA hungry man was he,\\nBut not a tempting morsel\\nFor dinner could he see;\\nBut poor discouraged Hazel\\nWith baby on her knee.\\nThe table looked untidy,\\nThe floor was yet unswept,\\nAnd naughty little brother,\\nSafe out of sight had kept,\\nWhile Hazel, with the baby,\\nHad set her down and wept.\\nWhen mama came at evening\\nShe heard her daughter say:\\nO mama, take the baby,\\nI ve had an awful day!^^\\nAnd Hazel found that keeping house\\nWas something more than play.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "DROPS OF HONEY\\nThere was a little busy bee\\nThat roamed a field all over;\\nAt last he spied a blossom red\\nUpon a stem of clover.\\nHe lit upon that blossom red\\nAnd searched it through and through;\\nAnd found some drops of honey there\\nThat sparkled like the dew.\\nHe took those drops of honey\\nAnd put them in his hive;\\nAnd when the cold, cold winter came\\nThey kept the bee alive.\\n(125)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "WHEN MY DOLLY WENT TO SCHOOL\\nWhen my dolly went to school\\nI bought her a slate and rule\\nWith my only silver dime;\\nAnd I said to dolly dear,\\nNow, my pretty, do you hear\\nYou must always be on time.^^\\nBut I told her not to worry,\\nNor get into a flurry\\nIf she happened to be late;\\nAnd what teacher has to say\\nShe must every word obey,\\nAnd must always sit up straight.\\nThen her little study book\\nAnd some other things she took.\\nWith a bottle full of ink;\\nAnd a pen and blotter too,\\nWith a tablet clean and new.\\nFor to write her little think.\\n(126)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "WHEN DOLLT WENT TO SCHOOL 127\\nBut my dolly had a will\\nAnd she never would sit still,\\nSo the teacher had to use a stick.\\nThen the boys would tease her so\\nJust because she didn t know\\nHow to get her rifmatic.\\nSoon my dolly grew so haughty\\nAnd some days she was so naughty\\nThat she wouldn t mind a rule.\\nAnd she couldn t learn to spell,\\nNor would get her grammar well.\\nSo I thought I d take her out of school.\\nAnd I d wait a year or two\\nTill my dolly older grew.\\nThen, perhaps, she d try to learn.\\nBut she promised to do better\\nSo I did consent to let her\\nGo to school another term.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "THREE LITTLE KITTENS\\nThree little kittens,\\nAll sleek as a mouse,\\nPlayed hide-and-go-seek,\\nRound a honeybee s house.\\nThree little kittens,\\nAll sleek as a mouse,\\nGot stung most to death,\\nRound a honeybee s house.\\nThree little kittens,\\nAll sleek as a mouse,\\nNever played any more,\\nRound a honeybee s house.\\n(128)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "THE SPIDER S PARLOR\\nThere was a cunning spider once\\nWho wove a tangled web;\\nA shining fly came passing by\\nAnd to the spider said:\\n^^What have you in your parlor, sir,\\nI wish you d tell to nie.^^\\nThe spider said I wish instead\\nYou d step inside and see.\\nMy parlor is a pretty place\\nWhere you may sit and rest;\\nWith cozy nooks and picture books,\\nI think mine is the best.\\nI ve windows in my parlor, too,\\nAll draped in woven lace;\\nAnd as you pass a pretty glass\\nReflects a handsome face.\\n9 (129)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "I30 SMILES\\nI ve pictures on the mantelshelf\\nI purchased just of late;\\nThe frames are fine and nicely shine\\nAnd all are up to date.^^\\nThe fly then crossed the threshold line\\nAnd never thought of harm\\nThe spider wise then blinked his eyes\\nAnd spun a little yam.\\nHe said unto his victim fair:\\nThis is a pretty place\\nSo won t you fly to the window high\\nWhere hangs the woven lace\\nThe fly flew to the window pane\\nWhere spider lace was hung;\\nAnd ere he knew just what to do\\nA web was round him strung.\\nHe buzzed and hummed and fluttered there,\\nAnd struggled with his might.\\nThe spider sly had caught the fly\\nAnd held him very tight.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "THE SPIDER S PARLOR 131\\nSo let s not listen, like the fly,\\nTo untrue tales that are told;\\nFor we must mind we re sure to find\\nAll glittering things aren t gold.\\nLet s not be led to danger then\\nBy a sinful, harmful guide;\\nBut walk each day in the narrow way\\nAnd shun the one that s wide.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "MOTHER GOOSE S DINNER PARTY\\nOld Mother Goose\\nRode in her caboose,\\nAnd invited her friends to dine;\\nAnd to each of them said,\\nAs she popped out her head:\\nBe sure to come at straight nine.\\nTo Old Mother Hubbard,\\nWho had a bare cupboard,\\nWith nothing- to eat or to sup,\\nShe said: Bring your dog Jack,\\nSo you can carry back\\nEnough for to fill you both up.^^\\nAnd to little Bopeep:\\nYou may bring all your sheep.\\nAnd their tails that were hung up to dry.^^\\nAnd to little Jack Horner,\\nWho sat in the corner.\\nShe said: I have made a plum pie.\\n(132)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "MOTHER GOOSE S DINNER PARTY 133\\nAnd to little Boy Blue:\\nBring your horn along too,\\nAnd play us a rollicking tune;\\nFor the cat with the fiddle\\nWill play us ^Hi-diddle/\\nWhile the cow jumps over the moon.\\nAnd to little Tom Tucker,\\nWhose face wore a pucker,\\nBecause he had nothing to eat,\\nShe said Come to the party\\nAnd eat quite hearty,\\nThen your face will be pleas nt and sweet.\\nBut of little Tom Green,\\nThe boy who was mean,\\nShe said she would surely leave out;\\nAnd would only invite\\nThe boy who did right,\\nAnd he was that little John Trout.\\nTo the piper s son Tom,\\nShe said Come along\\nAnd bring us a pig if you will,^^\\nThen poor simple Simon,\\nWho met the fat pieman,\\nShe told he could eat to his fill.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "134 SMILES\\nAnd to poor Jack and Jill,\\nWho fell down the hill,\\nAnd cut such a terrible caper:\\nBe sure that you bring\\nA drink from the spring,\\nAnd some vinegar and brown paper.\\nBut to bad, bad Peter,\\nThe great pumpkin eater,\\nShe said she thought twould be well\\nTo give his poor wife\\nA change in her life.\\nAnd let her come out of her shell.\\nBut poor Humpty-Dumpty\\nHe got such a bumpty,\\nWhen he fell way down from the wall.\\nThat he went all to smash\\nWith a terrible crash,\\nSo she couldn t invite him at all.\\nThen old Mother Goose\\nThought twould be of no use\\nTo invite the king and the queen;\\nFor they lived so high\\nOn their blackbird pie,\\nAnd with poor folks wouldn t be seen.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "MOTHER GOOSE S DINNER PARTT 135\\nBut thought twould be right\\nTo kindly invite\\nThe woman who lived in the shoe.\\nSo lent her caboose\\nTo be of some use\\nIn bringing the children there too.\\nSo all the folks came\\nTo see the good dame,\\nAnd they all spent a jolly good day;\\nAnd said their good-byes,\\nWith tears in their eyes.\\nWhen the wagons were rolling away.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "OLIVE S ADVICE\\nLet me tell you what to do\\nAs this world you journey through.\\nGive a smile to all you meet,\\nKeep your temper nice and sweet.\\nKeep your faces bright and clean,\\nNever do a trick that s mean.\\nKeep pure thoughts within your mind,\\nNever say a word unkind.\\nWhen at home, or when at school\\nPlease obey each given rule.\\nKeep in mind your duty ever,\\nDon t neglect it once, no, never!\\nThen you ll live a happy life,\\nFree from trouble, free from strife.\\n(136)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THE OLD AND THE NEW\\nThe year has past and gone at last,\\nThe parting gave us pain;\\nBut though we sigh for one gone by,\\nTwill not return again.\\nWe can t recall, not one, not all\\nThe years that we have known;\\nThey came and went and each was spent,\\nWith good and bad seeds sown.\\nThen let s not whine nor e en repine\\nFor joys that might have been;\\nBut with brave heart let each take part\\nTo help his fellow-men.\\nWe must not grieve; but still believe\\nTime will soon brighter be\\nThough we ve not met with greatness yet.\\nThere s hopes for you and me.\\n(137)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "138 SMILES\\nWe ll let the past that s gone at last,\\nBe lost on memory s track;\\nWe ll live no more the old year o er,\\nNor ever wish it back.\\nThe new year s come and now begun,\\nSo ring, ye merry chimes;\\nPeal one loud strain of sweet refrain.\\nAnd bring us better times.\\nLet s greet the year with words of cheer.\\nAnd new resolves we ll make;\\nWe ll strive with might to do the right.\\nAnd duty never shake.\\nWith pages turned and wisdom learned\\nBy mishaps in life s dream;\\nWe ll turn one new for me and you.\\nAnd keep it white and clean.\\nWe ll keep it well that it may tell\\nOur vows were not in vain;\\nAnd may each one, when this year s done,\\nBe raised to higher plane.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "PA S WAYS\\nMy pa, he s got the funniest ways\\nOf any man whatever I saw!\\nHe s different than ma.\\nHe never thinks same as she does;\\nBut they alus seem to git long some way\\nCaus ma says fussin don t pay.\\nBut pa don t b lieve in women votin\\nEn he says that ma can t,\\nEn then he says that she shan t!\\nHe says he d be shamed of her;\\nEn says he d git divorce.\\nEn pa means what he says o course.\\nPa Ukes to go to church sometimes;\\nBut he don t b long to any\\nCaus there s so awful many,\\nEn nobody knows which one s right.\\nHe says the preachers don t know\\nWhere the folks is goin to go.\\n(139)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "I40 SMILES\\nCans they s never been there\\nHe means the place they s preach for,\\nWhat they calls the golden shore.\\nBut he says they s doin lots o good\\nEn he don t mind givin *m money.\\nEn ma says that s what s funny!\\nBut he never minds what she says,\\nHe says woman can t mind her biz!\\nEn I guess he s right, pa is.\\nBut ma b lieves in woman s rights;\\nEn says a woman kin talk en do.\\nEn that s what she s goin to.\\nPa says if she couldn t talk she d die!\\nEn he wants her to live long.\\nSo lets her talk on, en on.\\nBut pa can eat more n she can;\\nEn he likes everything she bakes\\nHer pies, en pudins, en cakes.\\nEn it keeps her bakin lots it does.\\nShe says she wishes he wouldn t eat s much\\nOf pies, en cakes, en pudins, en such.\\nHe says her cookin s good too.\\nEn it jest gives him a appitite!\\nOh, my! pa eats a awful sight.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "JPA S WATS 141\\nBut he don t care anything- bout fashion;\\nHe says his is all his own;\\nEn wishes folks uld let him lone!\\nHe says if folks uld pay ther bills\\nThey couldn t wear so much style,\\nEn go to picnics all the while.\\nHe s gittin older every day, pa is.\\nEn ma says he s funnier, too,\\nEn she don t know what she ll do!\\nBut she never crosses him now;\\nCaus she says it never pays\\nPer pa well them s pa s ways.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "THE SPIDER AND THE BEE\\nWill you walk into my parlor\\nSaid a spider to a bee,\\nTis the prettiest little parlor\\nThat ever you did see.^^\\n^^No: I thank you, Mr. Spider,\\nSaid the busy, humming bee,\\nThere s no honey in your parlor,\\nSo it s not the place for me.^^\\n(142)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "KITTY BELL\\nFvE a story that 111 tell\\nBout a puss named Kitty Bell,\\nHow she played and romped one day,\\nIn a very shocking way.\\nAnd what happened to her then\\nJust because she d naughty been;\\nFor she wouldn t mind a word,\\nNot a single one she heard.\\nSo she had to go to bed\\nWith a dreadful aching head!\\nAn she cried an awful lot,\\nCaus her head was burning hot.\\nBut I bound an tied it up.\\nGave her tea in her new cup,\\nShook her pillow till twas light,\\nThen slept kitty all the night.\\n(143)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "144 SMILES\\nIn the morning when she woke\\nNot a single word she spoke;\\nBut she mewed, I m hungry ma/^\\nThen she licked her little paw,\\nWashed her face as kittens do.\\nTill it looked as clean as new;\\nSoon her mama brought a mouse,\\nThat she caught back of the house.\\nThis she gave to Kitty Bell;\\nAn poor kitty then got well.\\nAte it up an ran to play\\nIn a very quiet way.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE BIRDS PARTY\\nThe birds all held a party\\nOne lovely day in June;\\nWhen hearts were light and cheery\\nAnd voices were in tune.\\nThey came in pairs from woodlands,\\nFrom orchards, and from glen.\\nThe robin, rook, and bluebird.\\nThe swallow, cuckoo, wren.\\nSweet bobolink and sparrow.\\nThe crow and pretty jay.\\nThe whip-poor-will and linnet,\\nAll came that happy day.\\nThe meadow lark and blackbird.\\nThe tiny chickadee.\\nThe chippy bird and nightingale,\\nAll came the sights to see.\\n10 (I45", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "146 SMILES\\nThe catbird and canary,\\nThe topknot and the thrush,\\nThe oriole and turtledove,\\nAll came to join the rush.\\nAnd each one brought a basket\\nWith something good to eat;\\nThe robins brought some cherries,\\nThe crows each brought some meat.\\nThe sparrows brought some pudding,\\nThe blackbird brought some corn,\\nThe topknot brought a June plum.\\nThe chickadee a horn.\\nThe bluebird brought a horsefly,\\nThe meadow lark a bug.\\nThe linnet brought a cricket,\\nThe turtledove a slug.\\nThe swallow brought a beetle,\\nThe wren a little ant,\\nThe cuckoo brought a blossom,\\nFrom off a mustard plant.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE BIRDS PARTT 147\\nThe catbird brought some berries,\\nThe thrush his choice of weeds,\\nThe canary and the rest,\\nBrought baskets full of seeds.\\nThey gathered in the green wood.\\nTo spread their dinner fine;\\nThen each one took his sweetheart,\\nAnd went with her to dine.\\nThe feast was soon all over,\\nAnd each one with his mate\\nDanced to the horn of chickadee.\\nUntil the hour was late.\\nThen all the birdies parted.\\nAnd each one took to flight;\\nBut every bird was happy\\nWhen he bade his love good-night.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "JANUARY\\nWith merry chimes and merry times\\nWe ll greet the new year bright;\\nWe ll turn a page that s new in age\\nAnd try to keep it white.\\nWe ll look ahead and never dread\\nThe wind in all his whirls,\\nFor winter days and winter plays\\nAre good for boys and girls.\\nThe wind will blow and drift the snow\\nO er lakes and frozen rills;\\nBut what care we we ll happy be\\nA-coasting down the hills!\\nWe ll build our forts for winter sports,\\nAnd make a man of snow;\\nAnd then we ll skate upon the lake.\\nAnd let the cold wind blow.\\nWe like the ice and think it nice.\\nAnd wish twould always tarry;\\nOf all -the year we hold most dear\\nThe month of January.\\n(148)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "FEBRUARY\\nThe jolly month of winter time\\nHas called around once more;\\nAnd Mr. Ground-hog will be out\\nTo tell us winter is not o er.\\nHe ll walk about in pig-ship style,\\nAnd, ere the day is done,\\nHe ll freeze his nose and chill his toes\\nAnd wish he hadn t come.\\nThen soon will come old Valentine\\nWith lots of fun to see;\\nHe ll have a face that looks like you,\\nAnd one that looks like me.\\nAnd next will come a birthday\\nOf one who once was great\\nWe ll dance and shout and all turn out\\nAnd help to celebrate\\nThe birth of one who never lied,\\nAnd thus he lived until he died\\nGeorge Washington.\\n(149)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "MARCH\\nThe month of March has come again\\nWith blowing, snowing blast;\\nThe winds are piercing in their search,\\nBut come too late to last.\\nBut as the month will onward march,\\nThe winds will warmer grow;\\nUntil tis seen the earth is green\\nAnd vanished has the snow.\\nThen comes the sweetest time of all.\\nWhen sap flows up the tree;\\nWhen sugar-makers busy are\\nA-making cakes for me.\\nFor Fm the girl who likes the cakes\\nMade from that sugar sweet\\nThey re better far than all the gum\\nThat s chewed upon the street.\\nThis is the time I like so well\\nAnd wish twere always here.\\nOf all the months that call around\\nI think March sweetest of the year.\\n(150)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "APRIL\\nThe welcome month of April,\\nWith sunshine and with showers,\\nSets all the buds to swelling\\nAnd brings the early flowers.\\nAnd nature now has wakened\\nFrom her long and wintry sleep,\\nAnd dandelions are peeping\\nIn the grasses at our feet.\\nThe bullfrog loud is calling\\nFrom the pond or running stream,\\nAnd the nesting birds are cooing\\nIn their early ^Hove s young dream.\\nThe hop-toad in the cellar\\nThinks he ll take a look without,\\nAnd old shanghi on the fence\\nCrows and flops his wings about.\\nAnd I am just as happy\\nAs the butterfly or bee,\\nFor the showery month of April\\nIs a welcome month to me.\\n(151)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "MAY\\nThe sweetest time of all the year\\nIs when the month of May draws near.\\nThe air is sweet with rich perfume\\nThat comes from apple-trees in bloom.\\nThe peach-tree sheds its fragrance too,\\nAnd sips alike its share of dew.\\nThe lilac blooms and shows its right\\nTo make this month a flowery sight.\\nThe pansy lifts her welcome face\\nFrom out her long-leaved hiding-place.\\nThe violet blossoms as of old\\nAnd shows her color true as gold.\\nThe brooks they ripple as they go\\nFrom brink to brink, in ceaseless flow.\\nThe lark sails high on upward wing\\nAll Nature s glad to greet the spring.\\nThe wild flowers blossom in the wood.\\nAnd all proclaim that God is good.\\nOf all the months Td have to stay\\nIt is the flowery month of May.\\n(152)", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "JUNE\\nThe month of June brings roses sweet,\\nAnd daisies blooming at our feet;\\nWhen Nature sings her sweetest tune,\\nTis in the balmy month of June.\\nAnd glad vacation June will bring,\\nThen old school bells will cease to ring,\\nBut wedding bells their sweet refrain\\nWill ring and ring out just the same.\\nNow lilies white upon the stream,\\nIn early morning will be seen;\\nAnd cherries ripe upon the tree\\nAre tempting to the birds and me.\\nSo robin hops from limb to limb,\\nAnd seems to think they re all for him;\\nAnd gets his share, and even more,\\nBefore the cherry time is o er.\\nThis is the month that suits me best,\\nAnd I love it better than all the rest;\\nI d always sing the same gay tune,\\nIf all the months were just like June.", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4450", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "smilesbookofreci00rich_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "AUG 27 1900\\nDeacldifled using the Bookkeeper pr\\nNeutralizing agent: Magnesium Oxid\\nTreatment Date: Sept. 2009\\nPreservationTechnolo(\\nA WORLD LEADER IN COLLECTIONS PRESER1\\n111 Thomson Park Drive\\nCranberry Township. 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