Journeys Through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children, Volume 1An anthology composed of selections of graduated reading difficulty that includes nursery rhymes, fables, fairy tales, poems, folk tales, short stories, historical accounts, biographical profiles, excerpts from longer works, and a usage guide designed to assist with the development of reading programs. |
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Page 78
... became very much troubled by their constant quarreling . Many times and often he called his sons before him and begged them to live together in peace and harmony . Nothing he said seemed to affect them in the least until one day he ...
... became very much troubled by their constant quarreling . Many times and often he called his sons before him and begged them to live together in peace and harmony . Nothing he said seemed to affect them in the least until one day he ...
Page 84
... became very tired and turned in at the cottage of a plowman , whose wife , with great kindness , gave him a couch on which to rest and treated him to a meal of rich milk and fine brown bread . The cottage was neat and well fur- nished ...
... became very tired and turned in at the cottage of a plowman , whose wife , with great kindness , gave him a couch on which to rest and treated him to a meal of rich milk and fine brown bread . The cottage was neat and well fur- nished ...
Page 86
... became very cunning and sly as he grew older ; and as he was a great favorite with his mother she never corrected him very severely , and some of his pranks were quite troublesome . He liked to play the games that other boys played ...
... became very cunning and sly as he grew older ; and as he was a great favorite with his mother she never corrected him very severely , and some of his pranks were quite troublesome . He liked to play the games that other boys played ...
Page 89
... became such a favorite with the king that the latter dressed him up in rich clothes and sent him to pay a visit to his parents , telling him that he might have as much money as he could carry . Tom found a little purse , put into it as ...
... became such a favorite with the king that the latter dressed him up in rich clothes and sent him to pay a visit to his parents , telling him that he might have as much money as he could carry . Tom found a little purse , put into it as ...
Page 117
... became time for breakfast and he was given his share of the last loaf of bread . Then he thought that he might drop the crumbs on the way and mark it as well as with the white pebbles . So instead of eating his bread he slyly dropped it ...
... became time for breakfast and he was given his share of the last loaf of bread . Then he thought that he might drop the crumbs on the way and mark it as well as with the white pebbles . So instead of eating his bread he slyly dropped it ...
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