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Title: A Little Freckled Person
A Book of Child Verse

Author: Mary Carolyn Davies

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Language: English

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A LITTLE FRECKLED PERSON

A Book of Child Verse

by

MARY CAROLYN DAVIES

With Illustrations by Harold Cue

[Illustration: A LITTLE FRECKLED PERSON WHO HAS NEVER MUCH TO SAY]

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1919

Copyright, 1919, by Mary Carolyn Davies
All Rights Reserved

ILLUSTRATIONS

A little freckled person who has never much
to say _Frontispiece_

A rabbit works its ears, and tries To watch
you with its rabbit eyes 4

Weed the garden, carry wood 8

I like the kitten of my friends 30

Unfinished wings Are such curious things 36

While I'm washing dishes, or scraping out
the skillet 58

I'd like to be a pirate, A scarlet scarf about
my neck, a cutlass at my wrist 80

They are thirsty, so we give Water first
that they may live 100

A LITTLE FRECKLED PERSON

They think I'm just a little girl
At study, work, or play,--
A little freckled person who
Has never much to say.

They do not know a princess oft
In