The Book of the Little Past MAKING A HOUSE The Book of the Little Past by Josephine Preston Peabody Illustrated by Elizabeth Shippen Green Houghton Mifflin Company Boston 1910 New York COPYRIGHT 1903 BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY COPYRIGHT 1908 BY JOSEPHINE PEABODY MARKS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO Alison AND OLDER CHILDREN NOTE Of the poems of child-life brought together in this book many are wholly new; some are reprinted from "The Singing Leaves," published in 1903; and others have appeared in Harper's Monthly Magazine, to the editor of which I am indebted for permission to reprint them. J. P. M. JULY, 1908 Contents Illustrations [Pg 1] [Pg 1]