Child Classics, Book 2Bobbs-Merrill, 1909 - Readers |
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... girl , little boy ? " Oh , the world's running over with joy ! Don't you hear ? don't you see ? Hush ! Look ! in my tree I'm as happy as happy can be . ” And the brown thrush keeps singing , " A nest do you see , And five eggs , hid by ...
... girl , little boy ? " Oh , the world's running over with joy ! Don't you hear ? don't you see ? Hush ! Look ! in my tree I'm as happy as happy can be . ” And the brown thrush keeps singing , " A nest do you see , And five eggs , hid by ...
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Georgia Alexander. And he sings all the day , little girl , little boy , " Oh , the world's running over with joy ! But long it won't be , Don't you know ? don't you see ? Unless we are as good as can be ! " THE FOX AND THE STORK BY ESOP ...
Georgia Alexander. And he sings all the day , little girl , little boy , " Oh , the world's running over with joy ! But long it won't be , Don't you know ? don't you see ? Unless we are as good as can be ! " THE FOX AND THE STORK BY ESOP ...
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... girl's bed was put near the window . The mother tied the vine up . Then she went out to work . " Here is a flower coming ! " said the mother after a few days . Then she began to hope her daughter would get well . In a week the sick girl ...
... girl's bed was put near the window . The mother tied the vine up . Then she went out to work . " Here is a flower coming ! " said the mother after a few days . Then she began to hope her daughter would get well . In a week the sick girl ...
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Georgia Alexander. But the little girl as she sat at the window and folded her thin hands about the pea - blossom , Adapted . SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE FROM MOTHER GOOSE Sing a. thanked God for sending it to her . FIVE PEAS IN A POD 39.
Georgia Alexander. But the little girl as she sat at the window and folded her thin hands about the pea - blossom , Adapted . SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE FROM MOTHER GOOSE Sing a. thanked God for sending it to her . FIVE PEAS IN A POD 39.
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... girl glided into the room . When she saw the knight she knelt before him and asked , " Do you come from the wood ? " " Yes , " said the knight , and he began to tell of his ride in the enchanted forest . But the fisher- man stopped the ...
... girl glided into the room . When she saw the knight she knelt before him and asked , " Do you come from the wood ? " " Yes , " said the knight , and he began to tell of his ride in the enchanted forest . But the fisher- man stopped the ...
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A B C's ALICE BARBER STEPHENS Apollo asked his mother beat dog began birds bite pig brown thrush bubble bugs bull burn stick butcher butterfly Cadmus Caterpillar child Cincinnatus cluck cried dear demons Dog won't bite eggs Europa father Fire won't burn fisherman flew flowers garret gave Good-by goose green HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN happy heard HELEN HUNT JACKSON home to-night horse Huldbrand James Watt Lark Little Bo-Peep little boy little farther little girl Little white Lily looked Middle-Sized Bear morning night old woman Peachling peas Phaeton PHOEBE CARY pine-tree purple jar Pythias quench fire ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON rope Rosamond sailors ship shoes Sindbad sing sleep song soon Stick won't beat stile Stork story sweet tea-kettle tell things Thrush took Topknot tree Undine walked Water won't quench weathercock Wee Robin answered WILLIAM ALLINGHAM wind wish
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Page 136 - Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men ; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together ; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather...
Page 22 - THE SWING HOW do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue ? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do ! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside — Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown — Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down ! XXXIV TIME TO RISE A BIRDIE with a yellow bill Hopped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said : ' Ain't you 'shamed,...
Page 51 - I," said the Sparrow, "With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin." Who saw him die? "I," said the Fly, "With my little eye, I saw him die.
Page 141 - I once had a sweet little doll, dears, The prettiest doll in the world ; Her cheeks were so red and so white, dears, And her hair was so charmingly curled. But I lost my poor little doll, dears, As I played in the...
Page 91 - Little white Lily Droopeth with pain, Waiting and waiting For the wet rain. Little white Lily Holdeth her cup ; Rain is fast falling And filling it up. Little white Lily Said, " Good again, When I am thirsty To have fresh rain. Now I am stronger, Now I am cool : Heat cannot burn me. My veins are so full.
Page 48 - I love you, Mother," said rosy Nell; "I love you better than tongue can tell." Then she teased and pouted full half the day Till her mother rejoiced when she went to play. "I love you, Mother...
Page 19 - Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh, Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky.
Page 41 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king! The king was in his counting-house, Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlor, Eating bread and honey.
Page 151 - ... ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all. He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play. And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way. He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me! One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup; But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep...
Page 33 - So the merry brown thrush sings away in the tree, To you and to me, to you and to me; And he sings all the day, little girl, little boy, "Oh, the world's running over with joy; But long it won't be, Don't you know? don't you see? Unless we are as good as can be!