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... dead bodies . When the young wife realized at what she was looking , the key fell from her shaking hand , her heart stopped beating , and she almost fell to the floor in horror and amazement . Recover- ing herself after a little , she ...
... dead bodies . When the young wife realized at what she was looking , the key fell from her shaking hand , her heart stopped beating , and she almost fell to the floor in horror and amazement . Recover- ing herself after a little , she ...
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... dead as her lord , could hardly rise to greet her brothers , but when she learned of Bluebeard's death she quickly recovered and embraced them heartily . Bluebeard , it was found , had no heirs , and so all of his riches came into the ...
... dead as her lord , could hardly rise to greet her brothers , but when she learned of Bluebeard's death she quickly recovered and embraced them heartily . Bluebeard , it was found , had no heirs , and so all of his riches came into the ...
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... dead in the swamp , and the water became blood - red . " Crack ! bang ! " it sounded again , and whole flocks of wild geese rose up from the reeds . And then there was another report . A great hunt THE UGLY DUCKLING 49.
... dead in the swamp , and the water became blood - red . " Crack ! bang ! " it sounded again , and whole flocks of wild geese rose up from the reeds . And then there was another report . A great hunt THE UGLY DUCKLING 49.
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... dead mother brilliant and smiling , not pallid and ill as it was in her last days , but young and beautiful . To this vision each night she confided the troubles and little faults of the day , looking to it for help and encouragement in ...
... dead mother brilliant and smiling , not pallid and ill as it was in her last days , but young and beautiful . To this vision each night she confided the troubles and little faults of the day , looking to it for help and encouragement in ...
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... the pure white bond of her filial love , each day the charming girl grew more and more like her dead mother . YEARNING LOVE A CONTRAST Pudgy fists ; Ruddy toes ;. THE MIRROR OF MATSUYANA 67 HER GREATEST PLEASURE WAS TO LOOK INTO THE MIRROR.
... the pure white bond of her filial love , each day the charming girl grew more and more like her dead mother . YEARNING LOVE A CONTRAST Pudgy fists ; Ruddy toes ;. THE MIRROR OF MATSUYANA 67 HER GREATEST PLEASURE WAS TO LOOK INTO THE MIRROR.
Contents
GERDA ON THE REINDEERS BACK Marion Miller | 191 |
GERDA KISSED HIS CHEEK Marion Miller | 201 |
THE CHIMERA Nathaniel Hawthorne | 208 |
THE IMAGE IN THE WATER Frank H Young | 221 |
PEGASUS DARTED DOWN ASLANT D A Peterson | 234 |
PICTUREBOOKS IN WINTER Robert Louis Stevenson | 240 |
PHAETHON PULLED AT THE REINS M L Spoor | 250 |
THE ENGLISH ROBIN Harrison Weir | 253 |
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THE FIR TREE Hans Christian Andersen | 95 |
THE SWALLOWS AND THE STORK CAME II L Gaye | 97 |
THE FAT MAN TOLD ABOUT KLUMPEYDUMPEY H L Gage | 103 |
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN | 110 |
A VISIT FROM SAINT NICHOLAS Clement C Moore | 117 |
THE WORKSHOP OF THE DWARFS I O Reese | 127 |
THE DEATH OF BALDER | 129 |
HODER HURLED THE DART W O Reese | 135 |
THE PUNISHMENT OF LOKI | 143 |
THORS HAND GRIPPED HIM W O Reese | 149 |
AFTERWHILE James Whitcomb Riley | 152 |
SHUFFLESHOON AND AMBERLOCKS Marion Miller | 154 |
IT WAS THE SNOW QUEEN Marion Miller | 164 |
THE CROW STOPPED TO LOOK AT HER Marion Miller | 177 |
THE IRISHWOMAN Katherine Maxey | 264 |
HARTHOVER PLACE Katherine Maxey | 271 |
TOM WENT Down Katherine Maxey | 285 |
HE DIPPED HIS FEET IN Katherine Maxey | 294 |
THE OLD DAME CAME OUT TOO Katherine Maxey | 300 |
TAILPIECE Katherine Maxey | 306 |
TOM AND THE DRAGON FLY Katherine Maxey | 314 |
THE SALMON LOOKED AT TOM FIERCELY Katherine Maxey | 331 |
TOM WOULD HAVE BEEN QUITE HAPPY Katherine Maxey | 341 |
TOM DIVED Katherine Maxey | 351 |
MRS BEDONEBYASYOUDID Katherine Maxey | 363 |
SHE TOOK TOM IN HER ARMS Katherine Maxey | 373 |
TOM THE WATER BABY Halftone Mary Spoor | 396 |
TOM AND THE PETRELS Katherine Maxey | 401 |
MOTHER CAREY Katherine Maxey | 407 |
THE FAIRIES OF THE CALDONLOW Mary Howitt | 435 |
THE HARPERS THEY WERE NINE Marion Miller | 436 |
A LITTLE BOY HUNG DOWN HIS HEAD W E Scott | 442 |
THE FIRST SNOWFALL James Russell Lowell | 443 |
MORDECAI CRIED WITH A LOUD AND BITTER | 451 |
HAMAN WAS AFRAID Beatrice Braidwood | 457 |
THE DARNINGNEEDLE Hans Christian Andersen | 462 |
PLUTO APPEARS George Werveke | 469 |
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