neat little Louise, Annie and Mary, gentle Luca and handsome Donna,
sending their best love and kind wishes, and inviting you to come some
summer's day, to see them eat their dinner, and run about with them in
the green meadows. So, my darling, good bye. Perhaps, before you come
to see us, Luca may be a little mother, with a brood of pretty downy
children, following all around her.

Kisses and love from your friend,
F. E. H.

(From the "Child's Friend.")

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If any child wishes to know how to be neat and orderly, here, to teach
them, is the example of


LITTLE PINK.

On a swinging little shelf
Were some pretty little books;
And I reckoned from their looks,
That the darling little elf,
Whose they were,
Was the careful, tidy girl,
With her auburn hair a-curl.

In a little chest of drawers,
Every thing was nice and prim,