The Barefoot Time

The Barefoot Time by Adelbert Farrington Caldwell

Copyright 1903

CONTENTS
Dedication
Preface
The Barefoot Time
The Old Folks in the Country
Work
Queer Little Historians
Then and Now
Bob’s Quandary
Five Spinners
The Tenement Babies
A Fishing Seer
Just a-Wishing
A Prison House
The Little Hair Trunk
Mr. Frog’s Wisdom
Strange People
Bobby Dreamed
Hard Things
How the Camel Got His Hump
A Summer Task
Character
The Attic Rubbish
A Weed
Regret
His Change of Name
With Outstretched Cup
The Conqueror
Father’s Advice
One Guide
Little Polly Mary
Teddy’s Query
The Seven Sleepers
Bridges We Never Cross
A Poor Town to Live In
With Those Who Can’t Keep Up
Heroes
In Sleighing Time
Protected
Grandmother’s Stitches
Four to One
The New Glasses
The Two Ways
A Wise Waiting
The Visitant
Work and Worry
The Prize Winner
To-Day and To-Morrow
A Beautiful Result
The Crippled Hero
Mr. Bushel’s Hospitality
The Wish-Man
A Little Mathematician
The Castle of My Dreams
The Pasture Bars

Preface

Many of the selections of this little volume of child’s verse have appeared from time to time in “The Youth’s Companion”, “Ladies’ World”, “Farm and Home”, “Outlook”, “Sunday School Times”, “Forward”, and “The Independent”; and if, in bringing them together, occasionally here and there verses a trifle beyond “the barefoot time” have crept in, perhaps they were not unintentionally admitted for “children of a larger growth”.

A. F. C.