 THE LITTLE ELF I met a little Elfman once, Down where the lilies blow, I asked him why he was so small And why he didn't grow. He slightly frowned, and with his eye He looked me through and through. "I'm quite as big for me," he said, "As you are big...  The Folk-lore Readers - Page 87by Eulalie Osgood Grover - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 954 pages
...flowers over one Who fought to save his country, and whose lot It was to die unknown and rest forgot ? THE LITTLE ELF I met a little Elf-man, once, Down...lilies blow. I asked him why he was so small And why he did n't grow. He slightly frowned, and with his eye He looked me through and through. " I 'm quite... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 966 pages
...flowers over one Who fought to save his country, and whose lot It was to die unknown and rest forgot ? THE LITTLE ELF I MET a little Elf-man, once, Down...lilies blow. I asked him why he was so small And why he did n't grow. He slightly frowned, and with his eye He looked me through and through. " I 'm quite... | |
 | Education - 1901 - 714 pages
...central thought ; this includes the lesser.—Chicago Institute Course of Study. "I met a little elf man once, Down where the lilies blow ; I asked him why he was so small, And why he didn't grow. He looked me thro' and thro' ; 'I'm quite as big for me,' said he, 'As you are big for you.' " He slightly... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - Children's poetry - 1903 - 310 pages
...always should say " Please;" And then you know I'd make it sew, And curtsey with its knees ! r "A." The Little Elf I met a little Elf-man, once, Down...me through and through. " I'm quite as big for me," said he, "As you are big for you." John Kendrick Bangs. r "One, Two, Three"* It was an old, old, old,... | |
 | Edward Gendar Ward - Readers - 1900 - 188 pages
...ro^dsïd^. Every one of them is wonderful." I met a little Ëlf-man once, Down where the lHi^s blo^. I asked him why he was so small, And why he didn't...He slightly frowned, and with his eye, He looked me thr^ug^i and thr^ug^i. " I'm just as big for me," said he, " As you are big for you." — St. Nicholas.... | |
 | Sarah Row Christy, Edward Richard Shaw - Natural history - 1903 - 120 pages
...can never find the ElfQueen," she sighed. Mamma said that May was asleep when she saw the elf-man. I met a little elf-man once, Down where the lilies blow. I asked him why he was so small, And why he did not grow. He frowned at me, and with his eye He looked me through and through. " I am as big for... | |
 | Sarah Row Christy, Edward Richard Shaw - Readers - 1903 - 120 pages
...Mamma about it, Mamma said that May was when she saw the elf-man. I met a little elf-man once, asleep Down where the lilies blow. I asked him why he was so small, And why he did not grow. He frowned at me, and with his eye He looked me through and through. I am as big for... | |
 | John Benjamin Wisely, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold - English language - 1906 - 300 pages
...you have studied in this book. Be careful to write neatly, spell correctly, and punctuate properly. THE LITTLE ELF I MET a little elf-man once Down where...as big for me," he said, "As you are big for you." Lesson 44 An Exercise in Composition THE BONFIRE "^HIS picture shows something that happened one September... | |
 | Albert Le Roy Bartlett - 1906 - 218 pages
...following verb groups: wan fighting li<ixft>im in hidden are rexting Selection for Memory. TIIK LITTLK ELF. I met a little Elf-man, once, Down where the...me through and through. " I'm quite as big for me," said he, " As you are big for you." LESSON XCII. The Nominative Case and the Possessive Case. (Review... | |
 | Frederic Herbert Ripley, Thomas Tapper - School songbooks - 1906 - 140 pages
...ies 2. He slight - ly frowned and with his eye Looked at me through and A little slower. ф= Quicker. blow; I asked him why he was so small, And why he did not grow, through, "I'm quite as big for me,"said he, "As you are big for you." VICTOR HUGO. Slowly.... | |
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