Barefoot Time
ADELBERT FARRINGTON CALDWELL
The Barefoot Time
Boston: Richard G. Badger
The Gorham Press
1903
Copyright 1903 by Adelbert F. Caldwell
All Rights Reserved
Printed at
The Gorham Press
Boston
To My Mother
Whose sharing my pleasures then, makes cherished
the memories of childhood now.
PREFACE
Many of the selections of this little volume ofchild’s verse have appeared from time to time in “TheYouth’s Companion”, “Ladies’ World”, “Farm andHome”, “Outlook”, “Sunday School Times”, “Forward”,and “The Independent”; and if, in bringingthem together, occasionally here and there verses atrifle beyond “the barefoot time” have crept in,perhaps they were not unintentionally admitted for“children of a larger growth”.