class distinctions._

_"We're bound for Pinafore Palace, sir,"
They say to the smiling gatekeeper.
"Do we need, if you please, an entrance ticket
Before we pass through your magic wicket?"
"Oh, no, little Prince and Princess dear,
All pinafores freely enter here!"_

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN.

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_ACKNOWLEDGMENTS are herewith made to the following publishers for
permission to include in this volume selections from their copyrighted
publications:_

_Houghton, Mifflin & Co.: "A Dewdrop" and "Bees," from Little Folk
Lyrics, by Frank Dempster Sherman; "The Brown Thrush," from Childhood
Songs, by Lucy Larcom; "Bossy and Daisy," from The Old Garden, by
Margaret Deland; "Lost," from Poems for Children, by Celia Thaxter;
"Clothes," "A Music Box," and "Learning to Play," from A Pocketful of
Posies, by Abbie Farwell Brown._

_Lothrop, Lee & Shepard: "How they Sleep" and "The Darling Birds,"
from Babyland; "Follow Me," "Annie's Garden," "Good Mooly Cow," "The
New Moon," "Do You Guess it is I," and "Baby's Birthday," from Little
Songs, by Eliza Lee Follen; "Who Likes the Rain" and "Spring
Questions," by Clara Doty Bates; and five poems by Emilie Poulsson as
follows: "Chickens in Trouble" (Translated from the Norwegian) and "A
Puppy's Problem," from Through the Farmyard Gate; "The Story of Baby's
Blanket," "The Story of Baby's Pillow," and "Baby's Breakfast," from
Child Stories and Rhymes._

_Little, Brown & Company: "The Owl, the Eel and the Warming Pan" and
"The Difference," from Sundown Songs, by Laura E. Richards_.

_Milton Bradley Company: "The Five Little Fairies," "The Pigeons,"
"The Barnyard," from Rhymes for Little Hands, by Maud Burnham._

_New England Publishing Company: "Our Mother," from the American
Primary Teacher._

_Small, Maynard & Company: "Hospitality," "The Child's Star," "Foot
Soldiers," from Child Verse, by John B. Tabb._

_The Outlook: "Baby's Journey," by Mary F. Butts._

_And our thanks and tribute to the shade of "Mother Goose," beloved
nurse of all who lisp the English tongue._

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CONTENTS

_PART I_

THE ROYAL BABY

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I. BABY'S PLAYS 3

II. BABY'S HUSH-A-BYES 15

III. BABY'S JOURNEYS 21

IV. BABY'S FRIENDS