"Paintbox" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... But I was rather sorry that I had written them, for I had to say them over to the family, and then they sounded silly. The habit was formed, however, and I went on writing little books of ballads, which I illustrated with colors from my toy paintbox, and then squeezed down into the cracks of the garret floor, for fear ...
— A New England Girlhood • Lucy Larcom |
