Pepper & Salt; or, Seasoning for Young Folk

[Transcriber's Note: This is a full page picture of a country-side field with children listening to a man in Cap and Motley play an instrument. Other full page illustrations wit...

I saw an old woman go up a steep hill, And she chuckled and laughed, as she went, with a will. And yet, as she went, Her body was bent, With a load as heavy as sins in Lent.

One evening the dame was drinking her tea by herself with great comfort. It was just at the dusking of the twilight; the latticed window was opened, so that the little breezes c...

And now nothing was lacking in the cottage; if Peter and his mother wanted this, it came to them; if they wished for that, the two tall men in the bottle fetched it. They lined...

So he carried it home with him, and threw sack and all into a nasty pot where Catherine cast the scrapings of the dishes--the fat and what not that she boiled down into soap now...

Another old woman, of not much note, Lived over toward Truxton way, Who owned a goat with a shaggy black coat, As I've heard the neighbours say. And it was the fear of one and a...

"That," said the little man, "is a seed from the apple of contentment. Plant it, and from it will grow a tree, and from the tree an apple. Everybody in the world that sees the a...