With good wishes for the New Year

 

WITH GOOD
WISHES FOR THE
NEW YEAR

 

SHE GLADLY READ
UNTO THE BLIND,
TOOK FOOD
UNTO THE POOR,
AND BY KIND ACTIONS
HELPED THE SICK
THEIR SUFFERINGS
TO ENDURE

 
 
 
 
 
 

image of little Red Riding Hood
walking with the wolf

 
 
 
 
 
 

THE YOUNGEST OF YOU
HAS THE POWER
AND MEANS OF
DOING GOOD;
WE ALL CAN DO
WHAT ONCE
WAS DONE,
BY DEAR
RED RIDING HOOD.

Signed: "T.STEVENS COVENTRY" on back at pointed end, together with a woven Diamond Registration mark.

Stevens logo and Diamond Registration mark woven on the reverse pointed end of this bookmark

The woven diamond registration mark of the reverse records the date of 6 May 1872. Godden however records that this registration belongs to the bookmark sb367 - Little Red Riding Hood - not to this one.