A Book for Kids

Book Excerpt : ...would YOU like to be an empty house?""Some day I might be," replied the Blue-gum, "if I don't grow too old. There is some fine timber in me yet."Suddenly there was a great clattering and stamping inside the Little House, and Sym began to sing his Tinker's song."Kettles and pans! Kettles and pans!All the broad earth is the tinkering man's--The green leafy lane or the fields are his home,The road or the river, where'er he way roam.He roves for a living and rests where he can...