A DOLL FOR GREATGREAT - GRANDMOTHER:
Here is the doll of a hundred years ago-an old Welsh Pedlar Woman with her enormous basket tray of wares. She would be rather difficult to play with, don’t you think, but her tray would be the greatest fun to sort. She sells everything — clothes-lines and children’s garments that she has made, dishes and buttons, thimbles and huge brass pins, skeins of home-made wool and strings of bright glass beads. She must have done a rare trade in the days before shops were everywhere. And see her tremendous black umbrella? I expect it had to cover her and her shop too! I wonder what little girl first thought she was wonderful? A little girl who could be, now, your great-great-grand-mother. She took great care of her doll and played with her very carefully, so that in the end the Old Welsh Woman could be put away under a dome of glass, safe from the dust, so that you could see her these long years after.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 19, 3 November 1939, Page 38
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