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the Farmyard People, by Clara Dillingham Pierson
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Title: Among the Farmyard People
Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
Illustrator: F.C. Gordon
Release Date: September 26, 2006 [EBook #19381]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Among the Farmyard People
BY
Clara Dillingham Pierson
Author of "Among the Meadow People," and "Forest People".
Illustrated by F. C. GORDON
[Illustration]
NEW YORK Copyright by E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY 31 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET 1899
TO THE CHILDREN
Dear Little Friends:
I want to introduce the farmyard people to you, and to have you call upon them and become better acquainted as soon as you can. Some of them are working for us, and we surely should know them. Perhaps, too, some of us are working for them, since that is the way in this delightful world of ours, and one of the happiest parts of life is helping and being helped.
It is so in the farmyard, and although there is not much work that the people there can do for each other, there are many kind things to be said, and even the Lame Duckl