My Tiny Son!

THUMBLING AS JOURNEYMAN

A certain tailor had a son, who happened to be small, and no bigger than a Thumb, and on this account he was always called Thumbling. He had, however, some courage in him, and said to his father, “Father, I must and will go out into the world.” “That’s right, my son,” said the old man, and took a long darning-needle and made a knob of sealing-wax on it at the candle, “and there is a sword for thee to take with thee on the way.”

Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

Translated from the German By Margaret Hunt.

Illustrated By John B. Gruelle.

Cupples and Leon Company: New York. Ca 1914.

Where Bees Live.

JENNIE AND THE BEES

Tom Thumb and Other Stories.

McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1904.

Papa Bear!

The Three Bears’ Picture Book – Cover Page

The Three Bears’ Picture Book.

Illustrated by Walter Crane.

George Routledge and Sons: London & New York.

Happy Elephants!

Out For The Day!

Animal Antics.

Louis Wain.

S. W. Partridge & Co: London. Ca 1900-1910.

Happy Father’s Day!

Dear Father.

“Since you are so kind as to think of me, dear father,” answered Beauty, “I should like to have you bring me a rose, for we have none in our garden.”

It was not that Beauty cared so much for a rose, but she did not want it to look as if she were trying to be better than her sisters, who would have said she refused only to be praised.

From the story “Beauty and The Beast”

ONCE UPON A TIME

Edited by Katharine Lee Bates.

Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price.

Rand McNally & Company: Chicago & New York. 1921.

Father’s Day Tricks!

“PLAYING A TRICK ON PAPA.”

Mother’s Yellow Fairy Tale Book.

Arranged by Laura Dent Crane.

Henry Altemus Company: Philadelphia. 1905.

Father’s Gone A-Hunting!

Baby Bunting

Bye, Baby bunting,

Father’s gone a-hunting,

Mother’s gone a-milking,

Sister’s gone a-silking,

And Brother’s gone to buy a skin

To wrap the Baby bunting in.

Mother Goose

Volland Popular Edition.

Edited by Eulalie Osgood Grover.

Illustrated by Frederick Richardson.

Published by P. F. Volland Company: New York, Chicago & Toronto. 1921.

Daddy’s Baby Bunting!

“Bye, Baby Bunting.”

 Bye, baby, bunting,

Daddy’s gone a-hunting,

To get a little rabbit skin,

To wrap his baby bunting in.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.

McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.

Stern Father!

THE PRINCESS AND THE RAGGED BALLAD-SINGER

When the old King saw that his daughter only made fun of all her fine suitors, he was very angry. “By my beard,” he swore, “the first beggar who comes to the door shall be her husband!”

Only a few days later a strolling ballad-singer took his stand under one of the castle windows and sang his best in hope of alms. When the King heard him, he said: “Let the fellow come up here.” So the beggar was brought in, ragged, stooping, with wild hair, and whiskers that almost hid his face. He sang to the King and the Princess all the ballads he knew and then held out his torn hat for coppers, or perhaps a bit of silver.

The King said: “Your song has pleased me so much that I will give you instead of money this daughter of mine for your wife.”

The Princess cried out in disgust and dismay. But the King said: “I have sworn by my beard that you, too proud for royal suitors, should marry the first beggar who came to the door. That oath cannot be broken.”

This king could be very stern when he chose, and the tears of his daughter did not move him. The court chaplain was called in and the Princess and the beggar were married then and there.

And then, although his daughter clung to his knees, the King shook her off. “Now you are a beggar-woman, and beggar-women do not live in palaces. Go hence with your husband.”

Illustration from From The Story “King Hawksbeak”

Once Upon a Time. 

Edited by Katharine Lee Bates.

Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price.

Rand McNally & Company: Chicago & New York. 1921.

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Boy Loves Stove – Father Sells Stove – Boy Goes Crazy!

It is a sin; it is a theft; it is an infamy,” he said, slowly, his eyes fastened on the gilded feet of Hirschvogel.

“Oh, August, do not say such things of father!” sobbed his sister. “Whatever he does, we ought to think it right.”

August laughed aloud.

“Is it right that he should spend his money in drink? – that he should let orders lie unexecuted? – that he should do his work so ill that no one cares to employ him? – that he should live on grandfather’s charity, and then dare sell a thing that is ours every whit as much as it is his? To sell Hirschvogel! Oh, dear God! I would sooner sell my soul!”

The Nurnberg Stove.

Louisa de la Rame.

Illustrated by Maria L. Kirk.

J. B. Lippincott Company: Philadelphia and London. 1916.

Pa Grabs Cat By Neck – Cat Attacks!

“PA’S SHIRT WAS NO PROTECTION AT ALL.”

Oh, my ! I think Pa took the tom cat right by the neck, the way he does me, and that left all the cat’s feet free to get to their work. By the way the cat squalled as though it was being choked, I know Pa had him by the neck.

Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa.

Written by George W. Peck.

Illustrated by True Williams.

W. B. Conkey Company. 1900.