Name: Watermelon Pete and Others
Author: Elizabeth Gordon

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Elizabeth Gordon, Watermelon Pete and Others

“ And Watermelon Pete listened to what the naughty little Blackie said, and then he crawled out of bed, and ran, oh, so fast, down to the fence, and scrooged through a hole in the fence, and ran—pitter-patter, with his little bare black 14 feet—down the path to the watermelon vines.
Then he ate, and he ate, and he ate, so many watermelons! And by and by he went to sleep under a watermelon vine. And Mr. Moon went to bed.
Then pretty soon old Mr. Rooster woke up and said, “Cock-a-doodle-doo-oo! Farmer Brown, I’m calling you-oo-o! It’s time to get up!” ”

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Elizabeth Gordon, Watermelon Pete and Others

“ But Baby Elephant wanted trimming on his hat. So she found some ribbon grass, and made some 51 52 bows, and rosettes, and put them on and Daddy Elephant paid her for it, and they started out again.
Then Baby Elephant laughed. “Daddy, don’t I look funny with my stockings and shoes and nice new hat, and no coat on?”
And Daddy said, “Oh, you funny baby! Well, come along, and we’ll see if we can find you a coat.” And they walked and walked, and nobody could make a coat until they came to where the Tailor Bird lived. And he said he could make a coat, “Just as easy!” ”

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Elizabeth Gordon, Watermelon Pete and Others

“ Elizabeth Gordon’s sympathetic understanding of the child mind has placed her in the front rank as a writer of children’s books. It is an art not to be acquired; but, when natural and inborn, children are the first to recognize it. ”

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Elizabeth Gordon, Watermelon Pete and Others

“ In the story there is no perilous element, no fierceness or taking of life in fields or woods. The gentler side of animal life is pictured, yet the story is full of spirit and action. The illustrations show that command of technique and that originality which, combined, hold young readers spellbound.
THE LITTLE STRAWMAN
BY
CORA WORK HUNTER With 6 illustrations in color by FRANCES BEEM
64 pages. 75 cents net
The Little Strawman suddenly finds himself alive when the wind blows a wisp of straw into a raspberry bush and caps it with a berry head. ”

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Elizabeth Gordon, Watermelon Pete and Others

“ ELBRIDGE H. SABIN With 8 illustrations in color and 30 in black and white
by FRANCES BEEM. 144 pages. $1.00 net
This is an attractive fairy tale. The king of the fairies sends his son, Trixie, in search of the rare gifts of Health, Work and Love, to be bestowed upon a baby girl. The ways that are found to convey the mite of a princeling to his far-away goals are so novel, and his adventures so spirited, that no child can fail to be delighted while reading them.
WONDER HILL
BY
A. NEELY HALL With 10 illustrations in color and 47 in black and white
by NORMAN P. HALL. Cloth, 8vo. 288 pages. ”

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Elizabeth Gordon, Watermelon Pete and Others

“ And Farmer Brown said, “All right, Watermelon Pete, I will let you off this time. But you must never listen to that naughty Blackie again. Now go and get the cow and milk her, and then come to breakfast.”
And Mrs. Farmer Brown gave Watermelon Pete a whole plate 21 22 23 full of brown cakes for his breakfast, with crinkly cronkly sirup on them.
But the naughty Blackie couldn’t have any. 24
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PIGGY’S THISTLE WHISTLE
A funny little Piggy to the market went,
To buy himself a whistle with a bright new cent. ”

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