Journeys Through BooklandA collection of various pieces of poetry and prose. |
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... Perhaps children will think the little crab was not very respectful , but older people see that often parents do not set very good examples for their children , and that it is always easier to give good advice than it is to follow it ...
... Perhaps children will think the little crab was not very respectful , but older people see that often parents do not set very good examples for their children , and that it is always easier to give good advice than it is to follow it ...
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... Perhaps the promise that her words should ap- pear in print would be enough to induce her to talk ; perhaps hours would be wasted in trying to make her grow talkative , without success . At any rate , the Grimm brothers finally ...
... Perhaps the promise that her words should ap- pear in print would be enough to induce her to talk ; perhaps hours would be wasted in trying to make her grow talkative , without success . At any rate , the Grimm brothers finally ...
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... Perhaps people could have endured his face if it had not been for a great blue beard that frightened the women and children until they fled at his very approach . Now , it so happened that there was living near one of his castles a fine ...
... Perhaps people could have endured his face if it had not been for a great blue beard that frightened the women and children until they fled at his very approach . Now , it so happened that there was living near one of his castles a fine ...
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... perhaps , Rumpelstiltzkin ? " " Some demon has told you that , some demon has told you that , " screamed the little man , as he vanished into the air . MERCY TO ANIMALS WILLIAM COWPER I would not enter on my list of friends ( Though ...
... perhaps , Rumpelstiltzkin ? " " Some demon has told you that , some demon has told you that , " screamed the little man , as he vanished into the air . MERCY TO ANIMALS WILLIAM COWPER I would not enter on my list of friends ( Though ...
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... Perhaps you have seen people like Little Son or Chickabiddy - Shortlegs who were so very proud because they could do some one thing well that they made themselves disagreeable to everybody else . It is not manly to think that THE UGLY ...
... Perhaps you have seen people like Little Son or Chickabiddy - Shortlegs who were so very proud because they could do some one thing well that they made themselves disagreeable to everybody else . It is not manly to think that THE UGLY ...
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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