Evenings with Grandma, 2. osaD.C. Heath, 1912 |
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... wish to be remembered to Aunt May . Your loving cousin , BEN . MASTER TOM JONES , SYDNEY , AUSTRALIA . TO THE PUPILS : Gusty , means blowing by fits. THE HARBOR OF RIO JANEIRO " The sound of the first bar of the Na-. 7.
... wish to be remembered to Aunt May . Your loving cousin , BEN . MASTER TOM JONES , SYDNEY , AUSTRALIA . TO THE PUPILS : Gusty , means blowing by fits. THE HARBOR OF RIO JANEIRO " The sound of the first bar of the Na-. 7.
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... wish that we paid a little more attention to it in our own country . ' What should we do , Mother , when we hear our National Anthem ? " " When we hear it played , we should stand and listen in silence and with reverence . When it is ...
... wish that we paid a little more attention to it in our own country . ' What should we do , Mother , when we hear our National Anthem ? " " When we hear it played , we should stand and listen in silence and with reverence . When it is ...
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... wish for most , that we will give you . The children felt glad and puzzled at the same time . They thought there was nothing at all they could wish for in the world . At last Sylvester said : " I should like to have a little sunshine ...
... wish for most , that we will give you . The children felt glad and puzzled at the same time . They thought there was nothing at all they could wish for in the world . At last Sylvester said : " I should like to have a little sunshine ...
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... wish for some- thing that will happen in any case . " But you have saved our lives , and there- fore you shall have your wish - more than your wish , in fact . 66 You , Sylvester , shall have this gift : that wherever you go or look ...
... wish for some- thing that will happen in any case . " But you have saved our lives , and there- fore you shall have your wish - more than your wish , in fact . 66 You , Sylvester , shall have this gift : that wherever you go or look ...
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... wish he was center - fielder on our team , " said Ben . " Yes , " remarked Belle , " if he were , he would prob- ably call your club the shrimps . " Here May said : “ Just think of having a whole tree full of cherries given you . M - m ...
... wish he was center - fielder on our team , " said Ben . " Yes , " remarked Belle , " if he were , he would prob- ably call your club the shrimps . " Here May said : “ Just think of having a whole tree full of cherries given you . M - m ...
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Aladdin Ali Baba 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 opened palace play poem 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
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Page 52 - 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 365 - 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 159 - 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 363 - 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 234 - Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky, the rainbow, Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?
Page 336 - 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 244 - 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 245 - 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 233 - 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 10 - 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...