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Title: Stories for little children
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Harriman, Susan S., comp
Subjects: Children's stories
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ove them all. Oh, it wasa merry, merry day! Grandmother made Thomas the Indianfeather piece and he wore it all day long. Youshould have seen the old turkey strut around.She was so proud of Thomas and his feathers. 74 AT GRANDPAS FARM The yellow goslings swani in the pond for him.Do your best! said their mother. And youmay be sure they did, for Thomas clapped hishands and wished he could jump right in andswim with them. The mother cat carried all her babies by thenapes of their necks and put them down infront of Thomas. Then she washed them allclean with herrough tongue.The mother dogtrailed all herromping pup-pies over thefarm after himand Thomasshouted and played with them and tried to help themcatch their tails. I cant begin to tell you all the good thingshe had to eat. Of course there was the freshbread, right out of the oven, and the butter tospread on it, yellow as gold. And there wereeggs, freshly laid, and cookies from a stone jar,and the very nicest vegetables from the gar- 75
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STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN dens and peaches and cream. And if there wasa happier boy in all the world than Thomas,then I have never heard of him. And when the day was over, and he wastucked in his own little bed under the downcoverlet, with his head on the feather pillow,he said to his mother, Oh, how I do love tovisit a farm! And strange to say, just at that very minute,all the animals in the farmyard were going tobed, and they were saying: Oh, how we dolove to have Thomas visit us! PIGGYWEES LITTLE CURLY TAIL By Isa L. Wrighf PIGGYWEE woke up one bright morning andsquinted his little piggy eyes at his mother.My tail does nt curl, does it? he asked. No, said Mrs. Pig; Im afraid itdoes nt. But I want it to, wailed Piggywee. Ilike curly tails. And Piggywee began to cry. Hush, my child! Mother Pig admon-ished. Be thankful you have a tail at all. 76 PIGGYWEES LITTLE CURLY TAIL The bunnies do not have any, and they dont »cry. I dont care, said Piggywee; I want mytail to curl. Why does n

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