HANKY: WHEN DADDY WAS A LITTLE BOY -

SMITH, JESSIE WILLCOX. (SMITH,JESSIE WILLCOX)illus. HANKY: WHEN DADDY WAS A LITTLE BOY. Offered here is a charming color handkerchief with an image from her 1903 book Rhymes of Real Children published by Fox Duffield. It measures 12 x 12 3/4", slight soil and creased at folds else VG+. There is a large image of a boy seated on a stool surrounded with a beautiful pictorial border. The accompanying text reads: When Daddy was a little boy / All little boys were good / And did just what their nurses / And their parents said the should; / And sometimes when I'm naughty / He takes me on his knee, / And tells, when he was little / How good he used to be".