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 THE PRIZE PAINTING BOOK
GOOD TIMES,
BY

MISS DORA WHEELER.

This book has been published with the intention of providing

the most attractive material for the fascinating work of painting
in water colors, and with the certainty of furnishing amusement
and instruction combined, to children and beginners in drawing and
color-work.
In order to arouse competition, and to make the work of color-
ing doubly interesting, the publishers, White & Stokes, offer Three
Prizes for the three books which shall be returned to them colored
in the best manner.

First Prize, - - - -
$75 oo.

Second Prize, - - - - 50 00,

Third Prize, - - -
25 00.

They are pleased to announce that the awards will be made by the
following
JUDGES:
Miss Rosina Eiiivict, (First Prang Prize, 18S0),
Miss Caroline Towiiseiid, (Decorative Art Prize, 18S1),
Miss Dora Whcclcr, (Second Prang Prize, 1881).

The book has been prepared in every respect with the idea
of making it the model "painting-book."
 PUBLISHERS' NOTE.
The paper has been expressly manufactured for water-color
Avork. The outline designs have been drawn with a view to their
being filled in with color. In a number of cases these outline
pages are faced by their facsimiles, as colored by Miss Wheeler,
and these color pages serve both to guide the worker and to
render the book bright and attractive.
An interesting feature is the leaving one page entirely blank,
that an original design, suited to the text on the opposite page,
may be put upon it in such shape and color as the ingenuity and
taste of the competitor may suggest.
The be awarded Sept. ist, 1883, thus giving ample
prizes will
time for thorough work, and any child, not over sixteen years of
age, can compete for them.
Every competing book must be sent to the publishers between
May 1st and July ist, 1883, and must be accompanied by a cer-
tificate from some responsible person that the competitor is not over

sixteen years old, and has had no assistance in the work.

No book upon which insufficient postage has been put will be
received, and none will be returned unless accompanied by an amount
sufficient to cover the cost of so doing.
The three prize books will become the property of the publishers.

THE PRIZE PAINTING BOOK,

aside from its value as a prize-book and as a painting-book, has been
made so attractive that compare favorably with any English or
it will
American art-book and it has been put at a price which
for children ;

places it within the reach of all who may wish it, whether for the
beauty of its designs, the instruction to be gained from it, or the
intention of competing for the prizes offered in connection with it.

WHITE & STOKES, Publishers,

1152 Broadway, NEW YORK.
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We made a garden, Kitty and me,

And we planted Willie and Kitty's pup,

To grow in the sand-land, all tall up.

We thought it would be the splendidest fun,

When our sand-land garden was all done.

Bridget picked up shells by the sea.

While we made the garden, Kitty and me,

And Willie's so very little you know.

He thought he'd like to be planted and grow,

And all the while 'twas the splendidest fun,

Until the garden was made and done.

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We piled up the white sand, Kitty and me,

Till Willie and Rover could only just see,

And we told them both that they would grow

As big as we, if they'd stay just so —

And we hurried so to get it done,

For we kneAv that Bridget would spoil our fun.

But when we'd made it all smooth over,

Willie cried, and cried, and Kitty's Rover

Just howled, and howled, and wiggled so.

That he hadn't a bit of time to sfrow,

And Bridget came on the fastest run —

And we hadn't a single bit of fun.
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Where's the cat whose twisted cradle

All the children, young and old,

Have been makino-

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Will be making? — turn, and fold.

Twist, and slip, and turn, and double,

'Till the very world is old.

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If your effort be the arrow,

And your will the bow,

There is nothing to be learned

Which you ma)' not know.

If the effort be but loyal,

And the will be true.

There is nothing- to be done

Which you may not do.

Draw the bow then, king- of boyhood.

Do, and will, and learn.

.All that makes a happy manhood

You shall surelv earn.

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Jim on a down-turned box was seated,

Head tj^^wn back with a lordly air.

Tim — quick swaying his blacking brushes

Polished Tim's toes, with a face of care, ^i

" Yer'll g^l^^t'fep^ cents " — said the seated nabob

"If yer gib dem toes a fust-class shine;

And dat's der price, if yer went to de White Housej

Fer ter shine de President's, 'stead of mine."

"In a regla way, top price is highest;

But birds fly ober de tops ob trees,

And yer can't jest tell by what is regla

How much yer gits in now-an-den fees.''

" Suppose Jay Gould should git sot upon yer,

And gib yer a suit of his week-day does,

Fergitten a million or two in de pockets

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Yer'd want a dolla' fer blackin' my toes !
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A thin line of steel and a perch

And a boy well up in the air.

There he goes ! with a sway and a lurch,

Swift as the flight of a swallow.

He must be fleet who would follow

Fleeter than foot-steps of care.

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Swinging- in a hammock which the fishers made,

All the merry mermaids, not a bit afraid

Where the waves roll over

With their glossy cover,

Rolling over softly with a swishing sound,

As the wind rolls the wheat on the harvest ground.

All the merry mermaids, not a bit afraid,

Swinging in a hammock which the fishers made

Laugh, and frolic under

All the deep-sea's thunder.

Driving silly fish from the net's wide round,

As the wind drives the leaves on the autumn ground. •

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Do you know the electric people, who live in the air overhead

And go to school on the telegraph wires — and have clouds for a feather bed ?

The elders are solemn people, but the young ones are always gay

And whenever they smile in cloud-land, we call it the lightning's play.

And some are awfully jolly, and never will sleep at night

But keep on smiling, and smiling, in an awful electric light.

So the elders got together, and among themselves they said ;

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" What shall we do with these youngsters, who never will go to bed ?

" Now we are a solemn people ; we don't like this awful glow

This perpetual glare of smiling. Let us send them down below

Let them stand in the streets of that city where they rest not, day or night "—

And they sent them to sit on the lamp-posts, and m.ake the " Electric Light."
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'Tis a language all unspoken,

If we ever knew it

But the boys upon the sidewalk

Glibly patter through it.

They know all the hidden meanings

Lying in the words :

" Knuckle down —-fann inchins-

Ground grabs — no clcarins."

Just as much another language

As the speech of birds.

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Men heist med min bok i det grona jag sitter

Och lyssnar fortjust till faglarnas quitter.

This is one way of saying ;

—" A good book is better

When out-doors and sunshine illumine each letter."

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Hey, Billy Goat! Ho, Billy Goat!

Push them hig-her than Kizh.

Hey, Billy Goat! Ho, Billy Goat!

Send them up to the sky.

It's as true as you live

That a Billy can o'ive

A deal better buck than I.

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Purple gold on folded wing

Throat with metal burnishing

Glancing eye with topaz ring

Feet with pink enamelling—

All this bravery you wear,

Without thought, or without care.

Of earthly dust, or sun-filled air.

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i88i— F. B. T.—
Now go, and crawl a hundred years

Who finds you then will see

The letters marked upon your shell,

And wonder about me.

He'll wonder what my name was

Or perhaps he will agree

That there was once a turtle race

All marked with F. B. T.

And to the cnildren standing round

He may talk learnedly

About the veinings of this shell.

The species — F. B. T.
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Little baby Alice

Just suppose

That at night or morning,

Without word of warning,

All your tiny, weeay, pinksy toes

Just suppose

That the wee, pink toeses

Should go bud, and blossom into roses

Little baby Alice-

Then suppose

That we took no warning,

And at night or morning

We forgot to water the rose-toes;

And suppose

That the wee pink roses,

Just wriggled back to toeses !

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When we are up,

And you are down,

You are foot,

And we are crown.

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When we are down,

And you are up,

You shall drink,

From silver cup

So down, so up.

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When we are up,

And ^•ou are down,

You shall wear

A denim eown.

So up, so down.

When we are dowrt,

And you are up.

From golden platter

You shall sup

So down, so up.
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Sprites upon the pavement

Wheeling round and round.

Circling, rushing, speeding, flying-

Hardly keep the ground.

Like a dream of locomotion

Which their youth has found.

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Child's Dream,

A dream with a fairy in it

And a hly with leaves uncurled

And a fairy child Avhich floated out

Fairer than all the world.

Cat's Dream,

And a dream with a linnet in it,

Which slept and dreamed of a song

And the dream which dreamed of the linnet

Was cruel and strong.

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All the quest of day is done.

All the spoil of woods is won.

Children crouch within the light,

Where the black-birch fire burns bright,

And the spicy savor

And the steaming flavor

Break the chestnut's satin skin,

Show the ivory heart within.

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" Jack in the pulpit

Who ever heard before,

Of a little Jack set up

Inside a pulpit door?

Such a funny little preacher

Doesn't know a single letter,

So how can he tell the people

What'll make them better?

No, he doesn't know a letter

But he knows, and I don't know,

How the milk-weed silk creeps out,

And how the daddy-long-legs grow.

And when they get through growing

Who measures them, to see

If they really are as long

As lonor-leo-s ouo-ht to be?

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And when the oak-leaves drop

Who teaches them to sail ?

And who threads the wriggle

In the polly-woggle's tail?

I wonder what it looks like

I wish I could just see ,

If it's the kind of wrig-o-le

That there is in me.

Oh, Jack, you funny preacher

It. must be nice to know

How the milk-weed silk gets out,

And how the daddy-long-legs grow.

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This is a darling little Swede,

And _liere's a Swedish rhyme :

Vi'ssi dr det roligt da och da

Att diska en kopp eller tva.

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But not for all the time.

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"BLACK-EYED SUSAN."

Standing up boldly amid the grass,

Brushing the horns of the cows as they pass,

Black-eyed Susan sleeps and wakes.

Boldly she looks at the broad bright sky

At the broad-winged crows who go sailing by

Nothing she fears, but the harvest rakes.

Above her forehead a knob of brown

Rayed with leaves, like a golden crown

Which brightens over a grassy space.

Thick, rough leaves climb up like a ladder,

Where lady-bugs creep, and crickets clamber,

Up to her smiling face.

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