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Title: Sweets for Leisure Hours
Amusing Tales for Little Readers

Author: A. Phillips
E. Phillips

Release Date: November 12, 2007 [EBook #23454]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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SWEETS
FOR
LEISURE HOURS.

_Embellished with neat coloured Engravings._

[Illustration]

LONDON:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY
DEAN & MUNDAY, THREADNEEDLE-STREET.

_Price Six-pence._

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[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE.]

SWEETS

FOR

LEISURE HOURS.

EMBELLISHED WITH
SIXTEEN NEATLY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS.

[Illustration]

LONDON:
PRINTED AND SOLD BY
DEAN AND MUNDAY, THREADNEEDLE-STREET.

_Price Six-pence._

* * * * *

THE FROZEN BIRD.

[Illustration]

See, see, what a sweet little prize I have found!
A Robin that lay half-benumbed on the ground:
Well hous'd and well fed, in your cage you will sing,
And make our dull winter as gay as the spring.
But stay,--sure 'tis cruel, with wings made to soar,
To be shut up in prison, and never fly more--
And I, who so often have long'd for a flight,
Shall I keep you prisoner?--mamma, is that right?
No, come, pretty Robin, I must set you free--
For your whistle, though sweet, would sound sadly to me.

MAMMA AND THE BABY.

[Illustration]

What a little thing am I!
Hardly higher than the table;
I can eat, and play, and cry,
But to work I am not able.

Nothing in the world