The Keepsake picture book: being the "Golden childhood" volume for Christmas, 1878: the little people's own pleasure-book of delight and instruction: full of useful information and amusement comprised in stories for young people, moral and popular tales, lives of children's friends, facts about common objects, little bits of natural history, pretty poems, songs and music for children, &c. &c

About this book

Made for young readers as a Christmas miscellany, the volume brings together moral stories, practical information, poems, songs, puzzles, and natural history. An account of Job dwells on his flocks and his care for his children before describing the trial that awaits his faith. Elsewhere, a lullaby sets a baby’s peaceful sleep against the troubles expected later in life. In one installment, Little Linda spends an anxious few minutes trying to work out what to do with an unwanted oyster.