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... Good morning , dears ! " . They went along by the fountains next , " Nothing but grapes ! " said Althea ,. She stopped in the middle of it , 35 42 53 · 59 74 78 81 List of Illustrations After that they put on their coats vii PAGE PAGE.
... Good morning , dears ! " . They went along by the fountains next , " Nothing but grapes ! " said Althea ,. She stopped in the middle of it , 35 42 53 · 59 74 78 81 List of Illustrations After that they put on their coats vii PAGE PAGE.
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... good , that they did not think much about their rings for a time . But when ... by the clock that it only lacked five min- utes of eight ( their bed - time ... good - night ; " and she thought it very strange when the little dog that had ...
... good , that they did not think much about their rings for a time . But when ... by the clock that it only lacked five min- utes of eight ( their bed - time ... good - night ; " and she thought it very strange when the little dog that had ...
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... alongside the bank at the very edge of their mother's flower - garden . There stood their mother herself in the open cottage - door , calling them to come to supper . So they sprang ashore , said good - by to 30 The Kanter Girls.
... alongside the bank at the very edge of their mother's flower - garden . There stood their mother herself in the open cottage - door , calling them to come to supper . So they sprang ashore , said good - by to 30 The Kanter Girls.
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Mary Lydia Branch. So they sprang ashore , said good - by to the odd little boatman , and ran into the house . Never did hot waffles with cream taste so good to two little girls before . They went to sleep that night listen- ing to the ...
Mary Lydia Branch. So they sprang ashore , said good - by to the odd little boatman , and ran into the house . Never did hot waffles with cream taste so good to two little girls before . They went to sleep that night listen- ing to the ...
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... good little stream swept them bravely and merrily by . Then there were more farms , with orchards and sloping fields , but the children could not tell whose they were , for they had never been so far before . Then came a little ...
... good little stream swept them bravely and merrily by . Then there were more farms , with orchards and sloping fields , but the children could not tell whose they were , for they had never been so far before . Then came a little ...
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Page 70 - 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!
Page 215 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Page 121 - The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Page 39 - ... patience and care, And been good, and obliging, and kind, I lie on my pillow, and sleep away there, With a happy and peaceable mind. But, instead of all this, if it must be...
Page 121 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Page 39 - Alas ! my journey, rugged and uneven, Through prickly moors or dusty ways must wind : But hearing thee, or others of thy kind, As full of gladness and as free of heaven, I, with my fate contented, will plod on, And hope for higher raptures, when life's day is done.
Page 30 - ... of dew ; My palfrey, never stopping, made a music sweetly blent With the leaves of autumn dropping all around me as I went ; And I heard the bells, grown fainter, far behind me peal and play, Fainter, fainter, fainter, fainter, till they...
Page 206 - And crossed himself, and knelt and cried, And kissed the holy Edelweiss, Believing that the fiends had tried To buy him with a price. The king rides fast, the king rides well; The summer hunts go loud and gay; The courtiers, who this tale can tell, Are getting old and gray. But still they say it was...
Page 23 - Across the wide green splendor, Creek swelling creek till all in one The marshes made surrender. And clear the flood of silver swung Between the brimming edges, And now the depths were dark, and now The boat slid o'er the sedges. And here a yellow sand-spit foamed Amid the great sea meadows, And here the slumberous waters gloomed Lucid in emerald shadows. While, in their friendly multitude Encamped along our quarter, The host of hay-cocks seemed to float With doubles in the water.
Page 70 - A brave old house ! a garden full of bees, Large dropping poppies, and queen hollyhocks, With butterflies for crowns — tree peonies And pinks and goldilocks.