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  • The Old Year and The New

    I definitely posted this way back when I typed out the antique children’s book Joyous Times, but it is too fitting not to repeat. Joyous Times is an 1880s book. Sometimes they even had poems for New Year! I like when they credit the authors of the poem or story, even if it is something…

  • Joyous Times: Day 20 A Note from the Past – Dear Somebody

    Inside the back cover of Joyous Times, there is a note written in pencil. It’s hard to explain how I felt when I first discovered it. My heart rate jumped, and I felt like I had just won the lottery! I felt a little woozy, and thought maybe I was dreaming. I think that the girl who…

  • Joyous Times Day 19: A Fire in the Woods and Which is the Prettier Doll?

    Warning: The following story has some outdated terminology and can be viewed as racist. Please note that this is not my opinion or view whatsoever on a certain subject. I only reproduce this story here because I feel censorship in this form is wrong. It is posted here as merely a curiosity, a window into…

  • Joyous Times Day 18 : Three Nursery Rhymes

    Because these two pages are in a different format,  it is certain that the following nursery rhymes are not from our book  Joyous Times. Nevertheless, I will reproduce them here. I don’t think I’ve heard the full version of the first one, and I definitely have never heard the second one. The third is one I…

  • Joyous Times Day 17: Just Five Months’ Old and Mother’s Watch

    There are so many stories I have read,  but this is my current favorite. It’s so beautiful,  and I think you will agree. This could be used again and again to give to a mother in a card on a five month birthday, if you change the child’s name. Don’t you think? Just Five Months’…