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Title : Dolly and Molly and the Farmer Man

Author : Elizabeth Gordon

Illustrator : Frances Beem

Release date : January 7, 2016 [eBook #50862]

Language : English

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DOLLY AND MOLLY

AND

THE FARMER MAN

By
ELIZABETH GORDON
AUTHOR OF THE “DOLLY AND MOLLY SERIES,” “THE
BUTTERFLY BABIES’ BOOK,” “WATERMELON PETE”
“GRANDDAD COCO NUT’S PARTY”
title page: girls at picnic
Pictures by
FRANCES BEEM
RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
CHICAGO NEW YORK

Copyright, 1914,
By Rand, McNally & Co.
copyright page: girls dancing
The Rand-McNally Press
Chicago

grasshopper

girls carrying basket in field

[5] DOLLY AND MOLLY
AND
THE FARMER MAN
Went Dolly and Molly,
one fine summer day,
To watch while the farmer
man made the new hay.
dancing girls
[6] girls carrying basket outside house
[7] And a beautiful basket of
luncheon they took,
All wrapped in white napkins
by Mary the cook.
girls having picnic
[8] He whetted his scythe.
Oh, the big noise it made!
And he cut down that hay,
each spear and each blade.
girls carrying basket
[9] girls watching farmer with scythe
[10] grasshoppers watching hay being cut
[11] The Grasshoppers hoppered,
and gazed in surprise.
You ought to have seen how
they stuck out their eyes!
dancing girls
[12] He took a big fork and he
spread, all around,
That sweet-smelling hay on
the sunshiny ground.
girls having picnic
[13] farmer spreading hay
[14] toads watching, suitcase in hand
[15] And the Hoppy Toads
blinked sadly, saying, “Oh, well,
We shall just have to move
to the Burdock Hotel.”
girls carrying basket
[16] Then he raked it in long
rows, and left it to dry,
While they all ate their lunch
’neath a big tree near by.
dancing girls
[17] girls watching farmer rake hay
[18] And the Robin came too,
saying, “Please give me some,”
So Dolly and Molly each
gave him a crumb.
girls having picnic
[19] girls feeding bird
[20] Then the man tossed the hay
in a great shiny heap,
And put on its night cap,
and left it to sleep.
girls carrying basket
[21] girls helping put cover over hay
[22] farmer walking away down path
[23] Then a black and gold Bumblebee
bumbled along,
Saying, “It’s-time-little-girlies-
were-home-where-they-b’long.”
dancing girls
[24] girls following bumblebee
[25] So Dolly and Molly, all tired
with play,
Just followed the Bumblebee
home all the way.
girls having picnic
[26] grandmother feeding girls
[27] And Grandmother gave them
some milk and some bread,
And lovingly kissed them
and put them to bed.
girls carrying basket
[28] And the sleep fairies came
to that little white room,
And sprinkled them over
with sleep flower bloom.
dancing girls
[29] sleep fairies sprinkling sleep flowers on girls
[30] girls sleeping
[31] And that was the end of
that beautiful day,
When the twins watched
the farmer man make the new hay.
girls having picnic

[32] girls tending plants