Excerpt from Little Folks Land: A Book of Verses Cod-bye, good-bye to lessons and learning! Good-bye for a month to slates and sums There's a capital fire in the nursery burning, And there we gather when twilight comes. Then Alice will sit in the high-back chair, And open the book that we all know well And each of us chooses some story there For Alice in simple words to tell. There's just enough light on the pages thrown (she need not read - they are known by heart); The door is closed, we are left alone, And we ask her at once to make a start. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.