This hand calligraphed watercolor and cut-paper exercise is one of several pages from a schoolbook found in Vermont.  Dating from the mid-to late nineteenth century, it is consistent with the Victorian taste for children's paper pieces and puzzles that had moving parts and hidden pictures, and that were intended to both amuse and inform.

Beneath is a Residence cheerful though small,

Give it what name you please except Liberty Hall;

It is wall fenced and airy yet most people say–

That the guests who once enter can ne'er get away

Then lift the Latch gently and peep in with care;

Lest the tenants you fright or their premises tear.