My Lamb, you are so very small,
You have not learned to read at all.
Yet never a printed book withstands
The urgence of your dimpled hands.
So, though this book is for yourself,
Let mother keep it on the shelf
Till you can read. O days that Pass,
That day will come too soon, alas!

CONTENTS

1. Beautiful As the Day 2. Golden Guineas 3. Being Wanted 4. Wings 5. No Wings 6. A Castle and No Dinner 7. A Siege and Bed 8. Bigger Than the Baker's Boy 9. Grown Up 10. Scalps 11. The Last Wish