Excerpt from Three Little Spades C.hildren, I have written this little book to help you to get acquainted with a set of the sweetest friends a child can have. I have lived among flowers all my life, so I ought to know. But you can not be real friends without taking some pains for it. Do you feel acquainted with a little girl because you have seen her walk down Broadway in a red cloak and a white tippet - as little do you know the violets that look out with their fair blue eyes from the baskets of the flower-sellers on the street corner. Where did they come from? How did they grow? How can they sweeten even that great thoroughfare of business and mud? Did you ever wish you were like a violet? Because if you didn't, you don't begin to know them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.