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An appreciation of the daily providers of goods and services to the average house in the 1920s, including the milkman, butcher, grocer, and gas man.
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yCole's Happy Time Picture and Nursery Rhyme BookLillian M. Pyke,
Percy Leason
(illustrator),
Melbourne:E. W. Cole,1920Z8463451920selected work poetry children's A collection of original verse, some of which revisit well-known stories and rhymes and others that introduce Australian content, including a set of limericks about Victorian places. This collection has some specific leanings to Lewis Carroll'sAlice in Wonderland, both in the content of individual rhymes and in Leason's delightful illustrations.Cole's Happy Time Picture and Nursery Rhyme Book : A Jolly Book for Little Australians full of Bright PicturesMelbourne:E. W. Cole,1920