BY

MAUD LINDSAY

ILLUSTRATED by SARAH NOBLE IVES

" Mother, a story told at the right time Is a looking glass for the mind ." FROEBEL.

TWENTY EIGHTH EDITION

MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY SPRINGFIELD MASS. 1928

=Bradley Quality Books= PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEDICATED to MY MOTHER

PREFACE

I have endeavored to write, for mothers and dear little children, a few simple stories, embodying some of the truths of Froebel's Mother Play.

The Mother Play is such a vast treasure house of Truth, that each one who seeks among its stores may bring to light some gem; and though, perhaps, I have missed its diamonds and rubies, I trust my string of pearls may find acceptance with some mother who is trying to live with her children.