Читать книгу Cot and Cradle Stories - Catharine Parr Traill - Страница 3

Оглавление

PREFACE.

Table of Contents


[Handwritten note by Authoress]

One summer eve as I sat dozing in the warm sunshine on the veranda at Minnewawa I dreamed that a wee bird came and whispered,

"The children love to listen to your stories about birds, and bees, and flowers and squirrels, but you are very old and your voice will cease to be heard among the little ones."

Then I reasoned that I said "Wee Birdy, I will write the stories down and make a book that the far away children may read it and learn to know and love their "Heavenly Father" and the wild creatures. That [unclear] for so wisely and so well.

Catharine Parr Traill

Cot and Cradle Stories

Подняться наверх