Making the House with Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green

Making a House – Child Drawing – Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green
from The book of the little past, 1910 by Josephine Preston Peabody

Making a House
by Josephine Preston Peabody from The book of the little past, 1910

First of all, I draw the Smoke
Trailing up the sky;
Then the Chimney, underneath;
And Birds all flying by;
Then the House; and every Window,
Watching, like an Eye.

Everybody else begins
With the House. But I
Love the Smoke the best of all;
And you don’t know why ! . . .
Here it goes, – like little feathers.
Sailing up the sky!