In The Time Of Swords And Periwigs

For Quiet, Solitary And Observant Children Create Their Own World And Live In It, Nourishing Their Imaginations On The Material At Hand.

I Am Worn To A Raveling.

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There Was Another Story In The Paper A Week Or So Since. A Gentleman Had A Favourite Cat Whom He Taught To Sit At The Dinner Table Where It Behaved Very Well. He Was In The Habit Of Putting Any Scraps He Left Onto The Cat's Plate. One Day Puss Did Not Take His Place Punctually, But Presently Appeared With Two Mice, One Of Which It Placed On Its Master's Plate, The Other On Its Own.

Peter Lost One Of His Shoes Among The Cabbages, And The Other Shoe Amongst The Potatoes.

I Think If She Lived In A Little Shoe-house That Little Old Woman Was Surely A Mouse!