Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ :: DEDICATED TO :: THE NICEST CHILD IN THE WHOLE WORLD Printed in U. S. A. [Illustration: Boy sleeping] ALL ABOUT LITTLE BOY BLUE [Illustration: Boy blowing horn with fairy] WRITTEN BY EMMA GELDERS STERNE PICTURED BY THELMA GOOCH NEW YORK CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY The All About Series _Price per volume, 40 Cents_ “ALL ABOUT PETER RABBIT.” By Beatrix Potter. Pictured by Dick Hartley and L. Kirby-Parrish. “ALL ABOUT THE THREE BEARS.” Pictured by Dick Hartley and L. Kirby-Parrish. “ALL ABOUT THE THREE LITTLE PIGS.” Pictured by Dick Hartley and L. Kirby-Parrish. “ALL ABOUT MOTHER GOOSE.” Pictured by John B. Gruelle. “ALL ABOUT CINDERELLA.” Pictured by John B. Gruelle. “ALL ABOUT LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.” Pictured by John B. Gruelle. “ALL ABOUT THE LITTLE SMALL RED HEN.” Pictured by John B. Gruelle. “ALL ABOUT LITTLE BLACK SAMBO.” Pictured by John B. Gruelle. “ALL ABOUT HANSEL AND GRETHEL.” Pictured by John B. Gruelle. “ALL ABOUT THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.” Pictured by Gladys Hall. “ALL ABOUT LITTLE BOY BLUE.” Pictured by Thelma Gooch. CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY New York Copyright, 1924, by Cupples & Leon Company _All About Little Boy Blue_ [Illustration: All about Little Boy Blue.] Once upon a time there was a Little Boy called “Little Boy Blue,” because that wasn’t his name. He lived on a farm with his mother and daddie, And three cows, And ten woolly sheep, And a little white lamb, And a flower garden. [Illustration: Lamb] [Illustration: Lambs in pen] Little Boy Blue loved the three cows, and the ten woolly sheep, and the little white lamb; but most ’specially did he love the flower garden and all the flowers in it. [Illustration: Flowers] One day his daddie brought him a blue horn with golden stars painted on it. And when the Little Boy blew the horn it sounded mighty sweet to him, like bread and honey; [Illustration: Horn] [Illustration: Boy on cow] And it sounded mighty sweet to the cows in the meadow, like wavy yellow corn; [Illustration: Horn with stars] And it sounded mighty sweet to the woolly sheep, like grass and singing brooks; and it sounded mighty sweet to the white lamb, like his mother calling him. [Illustration: Lamb in stream] [Illustration: Moon and fairy] But to the fairies who lived in the garden it sounded sweetest of all, like dancing in the moonlight. Little Boy Blue played all day in the garden. [Illustration: Bird on branch] Until, when the shadows had put the sun to bed and the birds were singing lullabies, the night wind came to the garden bearing a message from his mother: “Come home, Little Boy Blue, Supper time, and bed time, too. Little Boy Blue, I’m calling you.” [Illustration: Small boy] The Little Boy tucked his blue horn with the golden stars under his arm and waved “Good Night” to the flowers in the garden.