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  • Cabbages and Peanuts

    Today, we will talk about Bedtime Story Book. In it, there is a single charming story in verse called Cabbages and Peanuts. The book is unpaginated, but amounts to 44 pages. Published in 1930 by Saalfield Publishing Company in Akron, Ohio, it was written by Harriet Boyd in the USA. The front page has a name…

  • Unknown Authors and the Man in the Moon

    There are countless poems that are written by people whom we will never have the pleasure of crediting. It is a shame,  too, because many are very good! Here is a humorous one taken from the second volume of the 1961 edition of Childcraft. A Farmer’s  Boy They strolled down the lane together, The sky…