Housekeeping, from The Library of Work and Play (Illustrated ...

Elizabeth Hale Gilman

• 15 december 2009
• 9781455446223

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First published in 1911. Children's story book about house cleaning and home economics. The book begins: "WHEN I was walking in a garden the other day, I saw a play-house. And what do you suppose it was? A big tree with humpy roots which stuck out of the ground, and low branches which nearly touched the grass at the ends. You could not stand up straight in the house if you were more than three feet tall, but as the people who lived in the house were only about two feet eleven inches, they did not mind that.You should have seen the china-closet. It was under a bent root, and all the dishes were white with violet markings. One might have thought they were big and little and middling-sized clam-shells, if one had not seen them in a china-closet."