Newson Readers ...: Good timesNewson & Company, 1927 - Readers |
Common terms and phrases
୧୧ Arabella Araminta Baby Baked barn Bear looked bells on earth Big Billy Goat Blowing Bubbles bun rolled calls the farmer chair Christmas day Christmas morning Cluck color crying Dark Pony stopped diddle earth shall ring Flower Boat galloping good-night Grandfather Gray Pussy Gray Squirrel Greedy Hawk Huge Bear Jack and Jill Jump-jump-jump Kate Greenaway Kitty's mother Little Bo-peep Little Boy Blue Little Dog Laughed little girl Little Gray Rabbit Little Jumping Girls little voice Little Wee Bear Lullaby MAGINE WRIGHT BARNEY MAGINEL marching song merry song Middle-sized Bear Mother Goose mother is lost Niddy Noddy Number Rimes Nursery Rhymes old woman Peas Porridge Peep penny People's Gates Pictures pill Porridge Pot Put to cool Quack rainbow Red Cock sheep sleep Sleepytown Sly Fox Someone Sowing the Oats stopped making porridge story and find three bears window sill young horse
Popular passages
Page 59 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 56 - Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 58 - Little Boy Blue, Come blow your horn. The sheep's in the meadow, The cow's in the corn! Where is the little boy That looks after the sheep?
Page 57 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 75 - They would eat the stew for dinner leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes the stew had food in it that had been in there for a month. Hence the rhyme: "peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot, nine days old" . Sometimes they could obtain pork and would feel really special when that happened.
Page 99 - Woman had not put the hard cushion straight when she rose from the chair of the Great, Huge Bear. "SOMEBODY HAS BEEN SITTING IN MY CHAIR!
Page 6 - January? By each day doing what is best; By thinking, working for the rest. So can a little child be merry In snowy, blowy January.
Page 86 - Jump — jump — jump — Jump away From this town into The next, today. Jump — jump — jump — Jump over the moon; Jump all the morning And all the noon.
Page 102 - SOMEBODY HAS BEEN LYING ON MY BED," said the great huge bear; for little Golden Hair had tumbled the bed and left the pillow out of its place. "SOMEBODY HAS BEEN LYING ON MY BED, TOO,
Page 93 - And there was a tiny little bowl for the tiny little bear. There was a big chair for the great big bear. There was a middle-sized chair for the middle-sized bear. And there was a tiny little chair for the tiny little bear.