Lady Hollyhock
AND HER FRIENDS
Lady HollyhockAND HER FRIENDS
HOLLYHOCK PLACE
LADY HOLLYHOCK
AND HER FRIENDS
AND HER FRIENDS
A Book of Nature Dolls and Others
By
Drawings by
MARY ISABEL HUNT
“The more things thou learnest to know and enjoy, the morecomplete and full will be for thee the delight of living.”—Phlalen
Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY PAGE & COMPANY
1917
Copyright, 1906, by Doubleday Page & Company
Published, October, 1906
Published, October, 1906
To My Mother
Who has always known how to help
little people enjoy themselves
Who has always known how to help
little people enjoy themselves
O the fluttering and the pattering of the green things growing,
How they talk each to each, when none of us are knowing;
In the wonderful light of the weird moonlight
Or the dim, dreamy dawn when the cocks are crowing.
I love, I love them so—my green things growing,
And I think that they love me, without false showing,
For by many a tender touch they comfort me so much
With the soft mute comfort of green things growing.
—Dinah Mulock Craike.
Foreword
THIS book has a purpose beyond that of mereamusement. Its aim is to aid parents in furnishingnot only entertainment but profitableemployment as well, for their little ones—profitable,in that work under the guise of play, makes for character.The value of the things made is not in their finish,but in the training which they afford—a value ethicalrather than intrinsic.
Children throw aside as uninteresting the finished
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