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... Dolls 70 Embroidery 212 Engraved Boxes 140 Engraved Egg - Shells 55 Enigmas 161 Enigmatical Birds 161 Fans 143 · Farewell to my Doll 188 Fate Lady Feather Baskets 72 110 Fettered Buff 50 Flowers , various , from one Stem 238 Fly away ...
... Dolls 70 Embroidery 212 Engraved Boxes 140 Engraved Egg - Shells 55 Enigmas 161 Enigmatical Birds 161 Fans 143 · Farewell to my Doll 188 Fate Lady Feather Baskets 72 110 Fettered Buff 50 Flowers , various , from one Stem 238 Fly away ...
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... Copenhagen , Honey Pots 296 Track the Rabbit , Dutch Doll 297 The Apprentice 299 Chitterbob 300 The Lawyer · 301 The Secret Word Consequences I Love my Love Cupid 303 905 308 311 THE LITTLE GIRL'S OWN BOOK . GAMES . THE BUTTERFLY xii.
... Copenhagen , Honey Pots 296 Track the Rabbit , Dutch Doll 297 The Apprentice 299 Chitterbob 300 The Lawyer · 301 The Secret Word Consequences I Love my Love Cupid 303 905 308 311 THE LITTLE GIRL'S OWN BOOK . GAMES . THE BUTTERFLY xii.
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... they see them arranged by older people . A small table with little mites of cups and saucers , and plates , with little chairs around it , and perhaps dolls in the chairs , is a very pretty sight . In 66 THE GIRLS OWN BOOK .
... they see them arranged by older people . A small table with little mites of cups and saucers , and plates , with little chairs around it , and perhaps dolls in the chairs , is a very pretty sight . In 66 THE GIRLS OWN BOOK .
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... hap- pens to touch when she says , " In again , " must pay any forfeit the others please to appoint . Sometimes she runs away , and the others have hard work to catch her . DOLLS . THE dressing of dolls is a useful as THE GIRL'S OWN BOOK .
... hap- pens to touch when she says , " In again , " must pay any forfeit the others please to appoint . Sometimes she runs away , and the others have hard work to catch her . DOLLS . THE dressing of dolls is a useful as THE GIRL'S OWN BOOK .
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Lydia Maria Child. DOLLS . THE dressing of dolls is a useful as well as a pleasant employment for little girls . If they are careful about small gowns , caps , and spencers , it will tend to make them ingenious about their own dresses ...
Lydia Maria Child. DOLLS . THE dressing of dolls is a useful as well as a pleasant employment for little girls . If they are careful about small gowns , caps , and spencers , it will tend to make them ingenious about their own dresses ...
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ALLSPICE amusement answer basket beads beautiful bees bird bottom Buff butterfly called catch centre circle colours cord corner Cupid comes dance diamond doll Duaterra edge engraving fairies Fanny fastened feather fingers flowers four French garden genteel Grand Mufti gum Arabic half hands HARRIET head heart hold holes HONEY POTS horn house that Jack imitate inch insects isinglass Jack built Jack Straws jardin JULIA knit lady laugh leaves letter little girls look love my love Lucy manner MARIA Marion Mary MILES TO BABYLON narrow neatly needle never Panjandrum paper pass pasteboard pay a forfeit Peter Piper piece pincushion play players pretty PUZZLES Queen rabbit Ratel ribbon Rose round says Serein sewed side silk sing sometimes SOPHIA spermaceti stick stitches straw string thing thread tree turn wand word Zealand
Popular passages
Page 95 - So he died, and .she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
Page 87 - As soon as the cat had lapped up the milk, the cat began to kill the rat ; the rat began to gnaw the rope ; the rope began to hang the butcher ; the butcher began to kill the ox ; the ox began to drink the water ; the water began to quench the fire ; the fire began to burn the stick ; the stick began to beat the dog ; the dog began to bite the pig ; the little pig in a fright jumped over the stile ; and so the old woman got home that night.
Page 85 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the farmer sowing his corn That kept the cock that crowed in the morn That waked the priest all shaven and shorn That married the man all tattered and torn That kissed the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow with the crumpled horn That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 85 - THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 78 - 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; Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king?
Page 94 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. " What
Page 85 - ... the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, This is the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 280 - Rose talked to her, she wanted to go away in silence ; and when a pocket-mirror was found in her sister's room, broken into a thousand pieces, she felt sorely tempted to conceal that she did the mischief. But she was so anxious to be made beautiful, that she did as she would be done by. All the household remarked how Marion had changed. " I love her dearly," said Rose,
Page 90 - ROBERT ROWLEY rolled a round roll round, A round roll Robert Rowley rolled round ; Where rolled the round roll Robert Rowley rolled round ? CLXXVII.
Page 84 - HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT THIS is the house that Jack built. This is the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.