Curly Locks
Anonymous
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Description
Curly Locks is an anonymous story book for children, told by a fond grown up narrator. Its heroine's real name is Alice, but everyone calls her Curly Locks for her golden ringlets. The narrator insists she was a real child, not just a story book one. Some people claim all good children live only in books, the narrator says, and such folk must have been bad themselves when young.
The first sight of her is a picture: Alice in a large velvet chair, sewing doll clothes and singing. She stops now and then to tell her doll to be good and go to sleep. Later the children dress in fancy costumes, as lords and ladies, princes and peasants. The book praises a good little girl in the earnest manner of its day. It belongs to the shelf of moral tales read to Victorian children at bedtime.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anonymous |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 7 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |