The barefoot time
by Adelbert Farrington Caldwell
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About This Book
This book is a selection of little volumes of children's verse. It appears from time to time in "The Youth's Companion", "Ladies' World", "Farm and Home", "Outlook", "Sunday School Times", "Forward", and "The Independent"; and if in bringing them together, occasionally here and there verses a trifle beyond "the barefoot time" have crept in, perhaps they were not unintentionally admitted for "children of a larger growth".
Chapters (104)
- The Barefoot Time
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- THE BAREFOOT TIME
- THE OLD FOLKS IN THE COUNTRY
- WORK
- QUEER LITTLE HISTORIANS
- THEN AND NOW
- BOB’S QUANDARY
- FIVE SPINNERS
- THE TENEMENT BABIES
- A FISHING SEER
- JUST A-WISHING
- A PRISON HOUSE
- THE LITTLE HAIR TRUNK
- MR. FROG’S WISDOM
- STRANGE PEOPLE
- BOBBY DREAMED
- HARD THINGS
- HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP
- A SUMMER TASK
- CHARACTER
- THE ATTIC RUBBISH
- A WEED
- REGRET
- HIS CHANGE OF NAME
- WITH OUTSTRETCHED CUP
- THE CONQUEROR
- FATHER’S ADVICE
- ONE GUIDE
- LITTLE POLLY MARY
- TEDDY’S QUERY
- THE SEVEN SLEEPERS
- BRIDGES WE NEVER CROSS
- A POOR TOWN TO LIVE IN
- WITH THOSE WHO CAN’T KEEP UP
- HEROES
- IN SLEIGHING TIME
- PROTECTED
- GRANDMOTHER’S STITCHES
- FOUR TO ONE
- THE NEW GLASSES
- THE TWO WAYS
- A WISE WAITING
- THE VISITANT
- WORK AND WORRY
- THE PRIZE WINNER
- TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
- A BEAUTIFUL RESULT
- THE CRIPPLED HERO
- MR. BUSHEL’S HOSPITALITY
- THE WISH-MAN
- A LITTLE MATHEMATICIAN
- THE CASTLE OF MY DREAMS
- THE PASTURE BARS
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