Short tales to explain homely proverbs
By: by M.H., editor of "The children's hour."
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Johnstone, Hunter, & Company; Hamilton, Adams, & Company
Published: 1866
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Subjects: Children's stories
Other titles: Select tales :
Notes: Date from inscription.

Each story has an illustrated half title.

Publisher's catalaogue follows text: 16 pages at end.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: Who gives quickly, gives trice; title: Short accounts make long friends; title: Evil communications corrupt good manner; title: Forgive and forget; title: Handsome is, who handsome does; title: Better late than never; title: Do as you would be done by; title: A stitch in time saves nine; title: Where there's a will, there's a way; title: All is not gold that glitters; title: Waste not, want not; title: There is no place like home.