''There was once a little girl whose name was Maggie,'' said daddy, ''and how she did love meals! Now, one ev...

        ''Her name is Brenda,'' said daddy, ''and when I saw her yesterday she told me that every year at Easter tim...

        ''All the winter things,'' said daddy, ''such as the cold Winds, the Snow and the Ice told the Pine Trees an...

       ''Carry was nine years old," daddy said. ''A few minutes before eleven Carry's little brother came to her, r...

        ''One day in a baker's shop,'' said daddy, ''appeared a very small-sized loaf of bread.        ''...

        ''A little girl named Peggy,'' said daddy, ''wrote a letter to Santa Claus, and this is what she said:      ...

       ''At night after the children had gone to bed and it had grown colder and colder Old Man Snow came around to see what the chi...

       "In the winter, at the start of the new year," said daddy, "when Mother Bear was sleeping and dozing and dreaming in h...

       "Well," said the Old Year, "I am going to make up a poem about myself. I feel quite poetical."        "And,&...

        "Just because it was the first day of the year," said daddy, "and because parties were about the nicest things in the...

       ''There was once a little boy who had a young, little sister," said daddy. "He was very disappointed that his siste...

       "Two children," said daddy, "were skating on a pond. It was a blustery, snowy afternoon, and they were the only ones o...

       "Once there was an old lady," said daddy, "who lived all alone.        One day, though, she went to town and bought a ...

        ''On the morning of the birthday of a little girl named Natalie,' said daddy, ''pink cockatoo was ready to greet...

       You know, I think oyster-crabs are perhaps the most selfish of all the sea animals," began daddy. ''The oyster-crabs rea...

       "The Clothespins on the line," said daddy, "were having a very jolly time."        "I'll blow those clot...