THE LITTLE WHITE GATE
By
FLORENCE HOATSON
Illustrated by
MARGARET W. TARRANT
GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD
LONDON CALCUTTA SYDNEY
To
MY FATHER
First published 1925
by GEORGE G. HARRAP & Co. LTD.
39-41 Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2
Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, Edinburgh
Acknowledgment
The author's best thanks are due to the Editorof The Schoolmistress for permission to includemany verses which have appeared in that journal;also to the Editor and Proprietors of Punch forcourteously allowing the inclusion of "Hyde Park";and to the Editor of the Daily News for permissionto reprint "Christmas Eve."
HE WALKS ACROSS TRAFALGAR SQUARE,
BECAUSE HE KNOWS THE PIGEONS THERE
Contents
I. Field and Garden
(All the Year Round)
The First Lamb
The First Shoot
The Bulb House
God's Pictures
Yellow
Grey Girl
Buttercup Gold
The Green Bank of England
A Day
A Summer Picture
Leap Year
Songs of the Pine-wood
A Poppy Song
The Bird Bath
Autumn
Who?
The Friend of Santa Claus
Christmas Eve
II. Fairies
Hyde Park
Moss
Little Moth
Fairies in the Cupboard
Fairy Frilly
The Snail and the Fairy
When Fairies have a Picnic
Fairy Gramophone
A Wish
III. Home
Granny
Blossoms
Aunty's Album
Aunt Matilda
Aunt Matilda Again