Evenings with Grandma, 2. osaD.C. Heath, 1912 |
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... MEDIO POLLITO SONG : IN OLD MADRID POEM : THE SANDMAN SONG : LONDON BRIDGE SKYHIGH AND CLOUDBEARD SONG : FINLAND'S FOREST SONG : THE MULBERRY BUSH POEM : THE BABY SONG : GRANDFATHER'S DANCE SEVEN AT ONE BLOW POEM : THE ISLAND WHERE ...
... MEDIO POLLITO SONG : IN OLD MADRID POEM : THE SANDMAN SONG : LONDON BRIDGE SKYHIGH AND CLOUDBEARD SONG : FINLAND'S FOREST SONG : THE MULBERRY BUSH POEM : THE BABY SONG : GRANDFATHER'S DANCE SEVEN AT ONE BLOW POEM : THE ISLAND WHERE ...
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... MEDIO POLLITO Long , long ago , had you been in Spain , you might have seen a large , handsome , black hen , sitting in a nest in which were twelve beautiful , white eggs . One day , first one egg began to crack , then another , and ...
... MEDIO POLLITO Long , long ago , had you been in Spain , you might have seen a large , handsome , black hen , sitting in a nest in which were twelve beautiful , white eggs . One day , first one egg began to crack , then another , and ...
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... Medio Pollito , which is Span- ish for Half - chick . As he grew up , however , his mother found that he was not willing to do as he was told . Besides , he was selfish . Indeed , he was as unlike his brothers and sisters in deeds as he ...
... Medio Pollito , which is Span- ish for Half - chick . As he grew up , however , his mother found that he was not willing to do as he was told . Besides , he was selfish . Indeed , he was as unlike his brothers and sisters in deeds as he ...
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... Medio Pollito . In spite of having but one leg , he liked to roam about . And when his mother called him , he made be- lieve he could not hear , as he had but one ear . When she took the whole family out for a pleasant walk in the ...
... Medio Pollito . In spite of having but one leg , he liked to roam about . And when his mother called him , he made be- lieve he could not hear , as he had but one ear . When she took the whole family out for a pleasant walk in the ...
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... . TO THE PUPILS : Medio Pollito is Spanish for half - chick . It is pronounced Ma'dç ô Pôll ye'to . Copy the fourth paragraph . TO THE TEACHER : Review phonics , p . 370 . 66 99 FIFTY - SEVENTH EVENING My geography says Madrid 63.
... . TO THE PUPILS : Medio Pollito is Spanish for half - chick . It is pronounced Ma'dç ô Pôll ye'to . Copy the fourth paragraph . TO THE TEACHER : Review phonics , p . 370 . 66 99 FIFTY - SEVENTH EVENING My geography says Madrid 63.
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Page 56 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 369 - He was chubby and plump ; a right jolly old elf; And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye, and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings ; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle , But I heard him exclaim,...
Page 163 - So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Page 367 - As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of toys, — and St.
Page 238 - Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky, the rainbow, Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?
Page 340 - And still fluttered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work of the sky, And the sudden flurries of snow-birds, Like brown leaves whirling by.
Page 248 - A whisper, and then a silence; Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden raid from the hall! By three doors left unguarded They enter my castle wall. They climb up into my turret O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere.
Page 249 - I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away...
Page 237 - Mudway-aushka !" said the water. Saw the fire-fly, Wah-wah-taysee, Flitting through the dusk of evening. With the twinkle of its candle Lighting up the brakes and bushes, And he sang the song of children...
Page 14 - Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming ? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming ? And the rockets...