Jump rope time! This image is from "The Glad Year Round", published in 1882. A.G. (Almira George) Plympton both illustrated and wrote the poetry for this book.
OldChildrensBooks.com describes the illustrations here as being "in a simplified Greenaway vein" and harshly judges the accompanying text as "original, if predictable, poetry." I disagree, partly. I didn't find the poems predictable - I found them simple and tuned into childhood life, and considering this book was aimed at children, I think they were just right!
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