Evenings with Grandma, 2. osaD.C. Heath, 1912 |
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... told me that you live near this church . Perhaps the best way for you to know what is in the book is for me to send you a copy of it . This I will do . After you have read the book , you will see why we are so proud of our fleet and its ...
... told me that you live near this church . Perhaps the best way for you to know what is in the book is for me to send you a copy of it . This I will do . After you have read the book , you will see why we are so proud of our fleet and its ...
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... told Grandma what to write , and she wrote it for me . Your loving sister , MAY . N. Y. , April 6 , 1912 . MY DEAR BROTHER BEN , We have been to the Zoo . We took the Elevated to 183rd St. , and went from there to the Zoo in an ...
... told Grandma what to write , and she wrote it for me . Your loving sister , MAY . N. Y. , April 6 , 1912 . MY DEAR BROTHER BEN , We have been to the Zoo . We took the Elevated to 183rd St. , and went from there to the Zoo in an ...
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... told the owner he would give twelve golden eagles for the cow . The owner wanted more . But Mr. Vinegar didn't have more , and therefore couldn't give more . They talked about the price for some time . At last the owner said , " Well ...
... told the owner he would give twelve golden eagles for the cow . The owner wanted more . But Mr. Vinegar didn't have more , and therefore couldn't give more . They talked about the price for some time . At last the owner said , " Well ...
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... told his story to Mrs. Vinegar , she gave it to him . 66 Humph ! " said Ben . " He was just about as -Avery- smart as was Hans . " Just then the new hall clock struck nine and off the children went , with 66 Good - night , Grand- ma ...
... told his story to Mrs. Vinegar , she gave it to him . 66 Humph ! " said Ben . " He was just about as -Avery- smart as was Hans . " Just then the new hall clock struck nine and off the children went , with 66 Good - night , Grand- ma ...
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... told earlier in the day that she would have to go to the Principal if she did not stop talking . " Our teacher called us to attention , and said she was going to tell us a story , and she told us this one , called AN OLD , OLD STORY ...
... told earlier in the day that she would have to go to the Principal if she did not stop talking . " Our teacher called us to attention , and said she was going to tell us a story , and she told us this one , called AN OLD , OLD STORY ...
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Aladdin Ali Baba asked Belle asked Grandma Baba baby bagpipes beautiful began Ben's bird blow brother Cassim CHERRY RIPE clock Cloudbeard cried Daedalus dear dong door Dudelsack eyes Faith Avery father finished forest giant girl glad gold golden golden eagles Good-night Grandma's reply Gretel Hansel Hansel and Gretel head hear heard Jack-of-all-Trades King King Solomon King's la la la Lady Moon lamp little brown Robin little tailor lived looked magician Medio Pollito milk-white Pearl Morgiana morning mother Nebuchadnezzar night Nokomis palace play Princess PUPILS queen rain replied Grandma robbers Rumpelstiltskin Sandman sang saying shining sing Skyhigh sleep snow song soon spin Star Spangled Banner stepmother story Sultan Sylvester and Sylvia TEACHER tell thee threw to-day told took trees up-stairs Vinegar walked wind window wonderful wood woodman words Write
Popular passages
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...