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    A Winter Nosegay Being Tales for Children at Christmastide
    A Winter Nosegay Being Tales for Children at Christmastide
    A Winter Nosegay Being Tales for Children at Christmastide
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    A Winter Nosegay Being Tales for Children at Christmastide

    By Walter Crane

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    A Winter Nosegay Being Tales for Children at Christmastide
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    Walter Crane

    Walter Crane (1845–1915) was an English artist, book illustrator, and one of the most influential children’s book creators of his generation. Crane produced not only paintings and illustrations for children's books, but also ceramic tiles and other decorative arts. From 1859 to 1862, Crane was apprenticed to wood-engraver William James Linton and had the opportunity to study works by many contemporary artists, including Sir John Tenniel, the illustrator of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

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      A Winter Nosegay Being Tales for Children at Christmastide - Walter Crane

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      Title: A Winter Nosegay

             Being Tales for Children at Christmastide

      Author: Walter Crane

      Release Date: April 3, 2012 [EBook #39358]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A WINTER NOSEGAY ***

      Produced by Emmy, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

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      A

      Being Tales for Children at Christmastide.

      LONDON:

      W. SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & ALLEN,

      PATERNOSTER SQUARE.

      1881.

      LONDON:

      PRINTED BY WOODFALL & KINDER,

      MILFORD LANE, STRAND, W.C.

      CONTENTS.

      The Man in the Moon.

      THE MAN IN THE MOON.

      ONCE upon a time, long before people were able to learn what they wanted to know from printed books, long before children had pretty pictures to tell them tales, there lived an old student with his pupil. Together they spent all the day in poring over musty old books and papers, trying to find out why the sun was hot; and in the night-time they might always be seen gazing at the sky, counting how many stars there were there. They were very curious folk, and wanted to know the reasons for all sorts of out-of-the-way things that everybody else was content to know the mere facts of, such as why birds have two wings and not three, why crocodiles have no fins, seeing that they can swim in the water, and many other matters that would not interest sensible beings. They always had at their side a young owl, and a serpent, toothless and blind with age; for they thought that youthful observation and aged craftiness were most suitable companions for them in their labours. If at any time old Fusticus, for so the old student was named, got dispirited in his work, or felt inclined to give it up as a hopeless task, he had but to turn round in his chair, and there behind him sat his owl, who seemed to say, as he cocked his head on one side, Never despair, success only comes after long perseverance! Or if he stuck fast at any point, and could make no progress, one glance at the old serpent made him think, Snakes wait whole days and nights on watch for their prey; why should I give in? And, strange to say, with a little more attention and care, he always did get over his smaller difficulties.

      But at last old Fusticus got weary of his long studies, as he seemed never to find an answer to any one of the questions he

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