A portrait framed by fanciful drawings of canes, whips and whalebone prompts the story of a German lady’s father, who began as a poor peddler of dust sticks in Hamburg and whose honesty and kindness earned him a birthday procession of five hundred grateful men with music. Short moral pieces and poems for children follow.
A gentle early American moral tale for children by the Boston writer and abolitionist Eliza Follen. Download the free EPUB.