Oh, What A Good Boy Am I.

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Illustration: Little Jack Horner. 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.

Little Jack Horner.

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.

Do Things Keep Getting Better?

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Illustration: “There sat the dog, with eyes as large as tea-cups.” From the story "The Tinder-Box." Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales. By William Woodburn. Illustrated by Gordon Robinson. W. & R. Chambers, Limited: London & Edinburgh. 1917.

“There sat the dog, with eyes as large as tea-cups.”

He opened the first door. Yes, there sat the dog, with eyes as large as tea-cups, staring at him.

“There’s a good dog!” said the soldier, as he spread the witch’s apron on the floor, and lifted the beast on to it. He then filled his pockets with the copper coins in the chest, shut the lid, put the dog back into his place, and passed on into the second room.

There sat the second dog, with eyes as large as mill-stones.

“You had really better not stare at me so,” said the soldier; “it will hurt your eyes!” As he said this he set the dog down on the witch’s apron and lifted the lid of the chest. No sooner did he catch sight of all the silver it held than he threw away his copper coins, and filled his pockets and his knapsack with the shining silver.

He now passed on into the third room. What a start he got! A dog in this room had a pair of eyes each as large as a big round tower, and they kept rolling round and round in his head like wheels.

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From the story “The Tinder-Box.”

Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales.

By William Woodburn.

Illustrated by Gordon Robinson.

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