Fifty Social Evenings by Annie E. Smiley - First Edition, 1894 for the collection including a few tiny chips

including a few tiny chips of clay stuck to its surface and glazed over

which I think gives this little rabbit a very energetic feeling and immediacy

with just a tiny bit of loss of white paint in a couple of spots that just adds to its charm

upturned beaks

Fifty Social Evenings by Annie E. Smiley - First Edition, 1894 for the collection including a few tiny chipsSo much fun! Published by the Central Office of the Epworth League (a Methodist young adult association formed in Cleveland in 1889) Fifty Social Evenings was written to help the league's department of social work in their efforts "to make league socials bright, entertaining and instructive." Happily, the fifty games and themes detailed possess a wonderful weirdness and specificity that makes for great reading and imagining, if not actual execution.