All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life

Chapter 11: THE CHILDRENS’ SHOES.

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A varied anthology of travel sketches, short tales, poems, and domestic vignettes by multiple contributors, offering lively impressions of foreign cities and countryside alongside thrilling adventures and gentle children’s stories. Pieces range from first-person travel sketches that capture street scenes, markets, and local customs to whimsical and moral short fiction and occasional verse. The collection alternates descriptive reportage and imaginative narratives, often accompanied by illustrations, and emphasizes vivid sensory detail, folk practices, everyday amusements, and small moral or comic resolutions, providing a blend of light entertainment, practical observation, and homely sentiment.

THE CHILDRENS’ SHOES.

BY BLANCHE B. BAKER (nine years’ old).

FOUR pairs of little shoes.

All in a row;

Four pairs of little shoes

For to-morrow.

Four pairs of little shoes

Worn every day;

Four pairs of little shoes

Ready for play.

Four pairs of little shoes

By the fire’s glow;

Four pairs of little shoes

White at the toe.

Four pairs of little shoes

Travelling all day;

Four pairs of little shoes

Resting from play.

Four pairs of little shoes

Waiting for day;

Four pairs of little shoes

Never go astray!