Goodbye Old Year!

Old Year’s Departure.

 The Old Year in his aeroplane, en route for Elfin Land,

Looks back as far as he can see, and waves a friendly hand,

And though he may not come again to dwell with us below,

In visions he may still return, in memory’s afterglow.

.

His brother Years, a countless throng, await the old, old Year,

And welcome him with toast and song, they’re proud of his career,

For he has given flowers and fruit and sun and ice for our delight,

So, “Bon voyage, Old Year!” Let’s shout when he sails off tonight.

.

A Year With the Fairies.

Written by Anna M. Scott.

Illustrations by M. T. (Penny) Ross.

P. F. Volland & Co.: Chicago, U.S.A. 1914.

Jack Frost’s Artwork!

Jack Frost

 Elfin pictures on the pane

Mean Jack Frost has come again;

Lace and ferns and vines and flowers,

Snow-capped peaks and fairy bowers.

.

Castles gleaming opalescent,

Rivers flowing iridescent;

Jewels set in filigree,

All in crystal fantasy.

.

A Year With the Fairies.

Written by Anna M. Scott.

Illustrations by M. T. (Penny) Ross.

P. F. Volland & Co.: Chicago, U.S.A. 1914.

Tiny Chats At The Pond!

THE FROG AND THE FISH.

Tiny and Her Vanity.

McLoughlin Bros.: New York. Ca 1892.

Tiny Talks To A Titmouse!

THE BLUE TITMOUSE.

Tiny and Her Vanity.

McLoughlin Bros.: New York. Ca 1892.

A Tiny Adventure!

[Cover Artwork]

Tiny and Her Vanity.

McLoughlin Bros.: New York. 1892.

 

Watching Sheep!

Little Bo-Peep And Other Good Stories.

Henry Altemus Company: Philadelphia. 1905.

How Fairies Get There!

The Fairies’ Balloon

The feathery ball of the dandelion gay

Is a silver and white balloon,

It wafts the Fairies clear up to the sky

And they visit the stars and the moon.

.

Sometimes they ride for a night and a day

And sail o’er the billowy main,

And then over mountains and valleys

To their mystical castles in Spain.

.

A Year With the Fairies.

Written by Anna M. Scott.

Illustrations by M. T. (Penny) Ross.

P. F. Volland & Co.: Chicago, U.S.A. 1914.

Planning the Future and Brownies Take Over!

While the lovers stood together planning a life for the future – things had been entirely taken out of their hands by the good little Brownies.

BROWNIES AND THE FARMER.

Written and Illustrated by Palmer Cox.

Hurst & Company: New York. Ca 1909.

Whatever the elf put the tongue on could speak!

“The elf first put the tongue on the tub.”

. . . the elf stole away the grocer’s wife’s tongue, for she did not want it while she slept. And now whatever he put it upon was able to speak just as well as the lady herself. It was a good thing the tongue could be in only one place at a time, or what a noise there would have been!

The elf first put the tongue on the tub . . .

From the story “The Elf at the Grocer’s.”

Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales.

By William Woodburn.

Illustrated by Gordon Robinson.

W. & R. Chambers, Limited: London & Edinburgh. 1917.