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A Little Freckled Person: A Book of Child Verse
The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Little Freckled Person, by Mary Carolyn Davies, Illustrated by Harold Cue
Title: A Little Freckled Person
A Book of Child Verse
Author: Mary Carolyn Davies
Release Date: May 27, 2010 [eBook #32553]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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A Little Freckled Person
A Book of Child Verse
BY
MARY CAROLYN DAVIES
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HAROLD CUE
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1919
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY MARY CAROLYN DAVIES
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Illustrations
| A little freckled person who has never much to say | Frontispiece |
| A rabbit works its ears, and tries To watch you with its rabbit eyes | 4 |
| Weed the garden, carry wood | 8 |
| I like the kitten of my friends | 30 |
| Unfinished wings Are such curious things | 36 |
| While I'm washing dishes, or scraping out the skillet | 58 |
| I'd like to be a pirate, A scarlet scarf about my neck, a cutlass at my wrist | 80 |
| They are thirsty, so we give Water first that they may live | 100 |
A LITTLE FRECKLED PERSON
They think I'm just a little girl
At study, work, or play,—
A little freckled person who
Has never much to say.
They do not know a princess oft
In golden gown am I,
With cheeks like apple petals soft
And eyes like sea or sky.
They only see my tumbled braids,
They do not know I wear
A crown with turquoises and beryls
Upon my coiled-up hair.
They do not know adventures dire
Beset me, land and sea,
That page and courtier, knight and squire,
Before me bend the knee.
That haughty ships with silken sails
Upon my bidding go—
All these, and other happy things,
They cannot, cannot know.
They only see a little girl
At study, work, or play,—
A little freckled person, who
Has never much to say!
The Selfish Sea
The sea is very, very wide:
It takes up all the room outside;
And when I stand beside the sea,
It comes right up and pushes me!
The Rabbit
A rabbit works its ears, and tries
To watch you with its rabbit eyes;
Its saucy little tail it flounces,
And when it hits the ground it bounces!
The Uncritical Kitten
If I am selfish when I play
My kitten likes me anyway!
Next-Door People
The next-door people have a bird,
The yellowest you ever heard!
It hops, and chirps, and sings—and sings!
Aren't next-door people pleasant things!
Probation
Mother says:
If you're thoughtful and polite;
Go to bed at eight each night;
Always hasten to do chores
And give up chairs for visitors,
Weed the garden, carry wood,
And be very still and good—
Mother says:
If you're faithful in your task;
Never beg, but only ask;
Fold your napkin, say your prayers;
Put no gum upon the chairs;
Keep your bureau drawer quite neat;
Never walk through pools, but on
The sidewalk till the mud is gone;
And say "Thank you" often, and
Sit erect and walk and stand;