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Bobby and Betty with the workers

Chapter 76: For study and play:
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About This Book

Two young children accompany and observe neighborhood workers—milkman and his horse, iceman, baker, grocer, shoemaker, tailor, postman, newsboy, and others—discovering how everyday foods, clothing, and services are produced and delivered. Short, episodic scenes mix simple narration, playful rhymes, and hands-on activities as the children buy pies, help bake, visit shops, and earn and spend money. Each vignette pairs concrete descriptions of tasks with study prompts and play suggestions for teachers, offering practical lessons about community roles, the origins of household goods, and the connection between work and daily life.

THE LAUNDRY MAN

Bobby has a blue laundry bag in his closet.

Betty has a yellow laundry bag in her closet.

They put their soiled clothes in their laundry bags.

Sometimes Mother sends soiled clothes to the laundry.

The laundryman calls for them.

Bobby and Betty fold the clothes before the laundryman comes.

Mother ties them in a neat bundle.

She gives the bundle to the laundryman when he calls for the clothes.

A few days later the laundryman brings back a bundle of clean clothes.

He gives Mother the bill for the laundry, and she pays him for the work.

Bobby and Betty help Mother put the clean clothes away.

Then they play laundryman.

They hitch Queen to the cart and call for Dolly’s and Teddy-bear’s clothes.

They play they wash and iron the clothes.

Then they bring them back to Teddy-bear and Dolly.

For study and play:

Does the laundryman ever call at your house?

Does your mother make a list of the clothes she sends to the laundry?

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Who hath a good trade
Through all waters may wade.