Miniature chapbook. 8 pages, illustrated with a title page vignette and delicately hand-coloured woodcut vignettes. Early owner's inscription penned on the title page. Three pages are darkened and slightly creased. 50 x 76 mm. Softcover, bound in printed buff wrappers, block titled with a vignette in black on the front cover and a young man falling from a tree on the verso. The covers are soiled and creased and the torn spine was previously reinforced with old tape. OCLC, 39614982. WorldCat locates five copies (New York Historical, Library of Congress, Virginia, Colorado Boulder, Southern California University Libraries). Although undated, the publisher Mahlon Day published at 376 Pearl Street from 1825 to 1833. Mahlon Day was a prominent Quaker publisher who, along with colleagues like Samuel Wood, transitioned children's books away from strictly moralizing, somber tales towards literature that was intended for enjoyment and gentle instruction.