A jar of jelly beans by Franklin Gregory

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March 30

They did not guess that their love and sympathy helped her very much too. "Well!" she said, brightly, "I was thinking this morning about God's promises, and I made up my mind to take one each day this year to live upon!"

"How do you mean?" asked Rose. "Every morning to take some distinct promise, or assurance, out of the Bible, and think about it whenever I could, and remind God of it whenever I was in any difficulty. I'm going to call it my ticket!"

Catharine Shaw remains a relatively enigmatic figure in the pantheon of children's literature authors. Her contribution to the genre, especially noted with her work 'Mother-Meg; or, The Story of Dickie's Attic', reflects the values and perspectives of her time. While the historical records provide scant details on her life, her literary work suggests a deep understanding of children's emotional and imaginative world.

Although she did not obtain the prominence of her contemporaries like Lewis Carroll or George MacDonald, Shaw's work nonetheless contributes a thread to the rich tapestry of 19th-century children's literature. Her stories, like so many of the time, were likely read aloud in nurseries and served as bedtime tales filled with caution, hope, and the triumph of good will – representative of an era where literature was a conduit for social and moral education

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First Published 1904
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