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 TO OUR LITTLE PATRONS

HE Tale of Our Cow" has been especially printed for you. When I first read the story it pleased me so much that I was sure little folks would enjoy it also. Men, you know, are only little boys gone to seed—you can almost always tell when a little boy has gone to seed, it usually shows on his head—which looks like a fuzzy dandelion after you have blown on it to find out what o'clock it is, and sometimes it looks as though he had taken the hair off the top to cover his face—that's the way I look.

Well, what I was going to say was that as "The Tale of Our Cow' had pleased a boy gone to seed—it was sure to please little boys not gone to seed, and little girls, too—especially if it had pictures.

Now, you know there are lots of people who draw pictures—I wanted to find one who could draw pictures sure to suit you.

Well, one day in a book shop in London, I saw a book about "Uncle Lubin"; it had pictures that would delight any girl or boy. It was through "Uncle Lubin" that I became acquainted with W. Heath Robinson, and although Mr. Robinson is very busy making pictures for grown-ups, he consented to draw the pictures in this booklet for you. The cows in the pictures were drawn by Mr. Billinghurst, who has illustrated several books of fables for girls and boys.

"The Tale of Our Cow" is the tale of City Dairy Milk, and although our special