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  "title": "A Child's Garden of Verses",
  "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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      "aliases": [
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        "I"
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      "description": "The child whose first-person voice narrates the verses, imagining adventures through play and recalling childhood. In the closing poem, the grown narrator says that this child has grown up and gone away."
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      "name": "Alison Cunningham",
      "aliases": [
        "nursie",
        "nurse",
        "my second Mother"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s devoted nurse and second mother, who cared for him through illness, read to him, and shared his childhood."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mary",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A named child mentioned on the page following “Bed in Summer”; the text gives no further identifying details."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hans",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A named child mentioned on the page following “Bed in Summer”; the text gives no further identifying details."
    },
    {
      "name": "Biddy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A named child mentioned on the page following “A Thought”; the text gives no further identifying details."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fifine",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A named child mentioned on the page following “A Thought”; the text gives no further identifying details."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mama",
      "aliases": [
        "mamma"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s mother, who puts out the light at night and calls him home; she is also present in the bedtime scene."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tom",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The narrator’s playmate, who helps build an imagined ship on the stairs and gets hurt during their game."
    },
    {
      "name": "Auntie",
      "aliases": [
        "Chief of our aunts"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s beloved aunt, remembered as central to the childhood of her dozen nurselings."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nursie",
      "aliases": [
        "nurse"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s nurse, who helps him into bed, wraps him warmly, and joins him in childhood activities; the dedication identifies Alison Cunningham as his nurse."
    },
    {
      "name": "Papa",
      "aliases": [
        "father",
        "my papa"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s father, described as a banker and as disagreeing with the narrator’s claim that a found stone is gold."
    },
    {
      "name": "Willie",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A cousin of the narrator, addressed alongside Henrietta as a companion in childhood garden games."
    },
    {
      "name": "Johnnie",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A child in the marching game, beating the drum."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mary Jane",
      "aliases": [
        "Jane"
      ],
      "description": "A child who commands the marching party and is playfully hailed as its great commander."
    },
    {
      "name": "Peter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A child who leads the rear of the marching party."
    },
    {
      "name": "The miller",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The miller at the riverside mill, whose hearing and sight are worn by the work."
    },
    {
      "name": "Leerie",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The lamplighter who goes through the streets at night with his ladder and lantern."
    },
    {
      "name": "Minnie",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The narrator’s childhood companion and cousin, remembered sharing a room and games with him; she is now far away in India."
    },
    {
      "name": "Uncle Jim",
      "aliases": [
        "Dear Uncle Jim"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s uncle, who is shown smoking his pipe in the garden that the child imagines as a setting for historic adventures."
    },
    {
      "name": "Robert Bruce",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A historical figure whom the child imagines sharing an enchanted spell in the garden."
    },
    {
      "name": "William Tell",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A historical figure whom the child imagines sharing an enchanted spell in the garden."
    },
    {
      "name": "Henrietta",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A cousin of the narrator, addressed alongside Willie as a companion in childhood garden games."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis Sanchez",
      "aliases": [
        "Little Louis Sanchez",
        "my name-child"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s young namesake, who lives in Monterey and is expected to read the rhyming volume when older."
    },
    {
      "name": "The child in the garden",
      "aliases": [
        "the child of air",
        "another child"
      ],
      "description": "The childhood self seen by readers through the book’s imagined window; the closing poem says he has grown up and only a childlike image remains."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Unseen Playmate",
      "aliases": [
        "the Friend of the Children"
      ],
      "description": "An invisible companion who appears when children are happy and playing alone, joins in their games, and looks after their toys."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dolly sailor",
      "aliases": [
        "the dolly"
      ],
      "description": "A toy sailor at the helm of the narrator’s little ship, whom the narrator imagines coming alive to sail and explore with him."
    },
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      "name": "The mother bird",
      "aliases": [
        "mother"
      ],
      "description": "A bird keeping four eggs warm in a nest; the eggs hold her soon-to-hatch young."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gardener",
      "aliases": [
        "Old and serious, brown and big"
      ],
      "description": "An older, serious worker who tends the garden and cuts hay, and whom the narrator wishes would play with him."
    },
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      "name": "The mother",
      "aliases": [
        "my mother"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s mother, addressed in a poem recalling his childhood and the sound of his little feet in the house."
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      "name": "The unnamed tramp",
      "aliases": [
        "a tramp"
      ],
      "description": "A passerby seen standing and gazing from the railway carriage."
    },
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      "name": "The unnamed child gathering brambles",
      "aliases": [
        "a child who clambers and scrambles"
      ],
      "description": "A child glimpsed alone by the railway, climbing and gathering brambles."
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      "name": "The unnamed runaway cart driver",
      "aliases": [
        "man and load"
      ],
      "description": "A man with a load in a cart that has run away on the road."
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