Contents

Contents

To Alison Cunningham

I Bed in Summer

II A Thought

III At the Sea-side

IV Young Night-Thought

V Whole Duty of Children

VI Rain

VII Pirate Story

VIII Foreign Lands

IX Windy Nights

X Travel

XI Singing

XII Looking Forward

XIII A Good Play

XIV Where Go the Boats?

XV Auntie's Skirts

XVI The Land of Counterpane

XVII The Land of Nod

XVIII My Shadow

XIX System

XX A Good Boy

XXI Escape at Bedtime

XXII Marching Song

XXIII The Cow

XXIV The Happy Thought

XXV The Wind

XXVI Keepsake Mill

XXVII Good and Bad Children

XXVIII Foreign Children

XXIX The Sun Travels

XXX The Lamplighter

XXXI My Bed is a Boat

XXXII The Moon

XXXIII The Swing

XXXIV Time to Rise

XXXV Looking-glass River

XXXVI Fairy Bread

XXXVII From a Railway Carriage

XXXVIII Winter-time

XXXIX The Hayloft

XL Farewell to the Farm

XLI North-west Passage

1. Good-Night

2. Shadow March

3. In Port