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OBBY told his mother all about the
"How would you like to send Johnny something by the
Mother could think of the nicest things!
Bobby wanted to begin the
Mother thought that they had better find pictures for the book first, so she and Bobby got out some old magazines that had been stored away to use for something like this. Bobby remembered hearing Mother say when she put them in the closet: "If we should ever need pictures, we'll know where to find them."
He and Mother looked over every magazine and chose the pictures that they thought Johnny would like best. Then they cut the pictures out. That was hard work because they had to be so careful.
Then they cut the pictures out. |
Once Bobby's scissors slipped and cut an ear from a picture rabbit, and once Mother almost snipped a wheel from a picture automobile. After that they took so much pains that not another picture was spoiled.
When the pictures were all cut out, Mother and Bobby pasted them on sheets of gray cardboard. Mother pasted one page, and Bobby another, till all the pictures were pasted. Then Mother fastened the pages together with a blue cord; and the book was ready to send to Johnny.
It was a beautiful book. One page had an elephant in the middle of it and a clown in each corner. That was Bobby's favorite page.
One page was like a
Father printed under the picture:
"When upon this page you look, You'll see the boy who sends this book." |
Bobby showed this page to the
"It is really and truly a picture of me," he said.
"Bless your heart!" said the