Evenings with Grandma, 2. osaD.C. Heath, 1912 |
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... , " said Sylvester . " Come , let us go home , " whispered Syl- via ; " I am so afraid of the high trees and their wonderful songs . " " Wait a little . There , I see father coming with his ax on his shoulder , " said Sylvester 91.
... , " said Sylvester . " Come , let us go home , " whispered Syl- via ; " I am so afraid of the high trees and their wonderful songs . " " Wait a little . There , I see father coming with his ax on his shoulder , " said Sylvester 91.
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... wonderful , - this story of Sylvester and Sylvia , " said Belle . 66 " Surely , " said Grandma . By the way , May , " continued she , " next Wednesday is your birthday , I think . " " So it is , " said Ben , who had moments of ...
... wonderful , - this story of Sylvester and Sylvia , " said Belle . 66 " Surely , " said Grandma . By the way , May , " continued she , " next Wednesday is your birthday , I think . " " So it is , " said Ben , who had moments of ...
Page 109
... wonderful gifts which they have , and which no one can understand . " But Sylvester and Sylvia were so happy . over the royal cake , that they had quite for- gotten that they could make sunshine and melt snow . They did not themselves ...
... wonderful gifts which they have , and which no one can understand . " But Sylvester and Sylvia were so happy . over the royal cake , that they had quite for- gotten that they could make sunshine and melt snow . They did not themselves ...
Page 125
... wonderful things he can do . But he never does them . " 66 I know whom you mean , " said Belle . " Bouncer . " " Bouncer ! " exclaimed Grandma . " Who is he ? " " Oh , that's his nickname , " replied Ben . " He isn't like Blue Billy ...
... wonderful things he can do . But he never does them . " 66 I know whom you mean , " said Belle . " Bouncer . " " Bouncer ! " exclaimed Grandma . " Who is he ? " " Oh , that's his nickname , " replied Ben . " He isn't like Blue Billy ...
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... mighty hero . " Soon the King heard of this wonderful warrior , and thought he would be a useful man in case of war . So the King sent a man to ask the tailor to enter his service . The man went to the little tailor , but he was still. 144.
... mighty hero . " Soon the King heard of this wonderful warrior , and thought he would be a useful man in case of war . So the King sent a man to ask the tailor to enter his service . The man went to the little tailor , but he was still. 144.
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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
Popular passages
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...