"Old Mother Life to her children doth say: - 'Go on with your duties, my dears: On the right hand is work, on the left hand is play; See that you tarry with neither all day, But faithfully build up the years.'" -Mary Mapes Dodge, The Irvington Stories (1864) The Irvington Stories (1864) is a compilation of 16 children's stories. While the book's author, Mary Maples Dodge, began her career as the editor of a children's magazine, she started writing...