Child Classics, Book 1Bobbs-Merrill, 1909 - Readers Short stories and plays of childrens favorite stories. |
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... FIRST READER ALADDIN I Let me tell you a story ! Aladdin was a little boy . He had no father . His mother was good to him . Aladdin played all day . See suggestions to teachers . One day a strange man came up to him . THE FIRST READER ...
... FIRST READER ALADDIN I Let me tell you a story ! Aladdin was a little boy . He had no father . His mother was good to him . Aladdin played all day . See suggestions to teachers . One day a strange man came up to him . THE FIRST READER ...
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... played on his harp and sang to his sheep . One day a man came to David and said , " The King is sad . Come play for him . " David went to the King and played on his harp . The King liked David's playing and asked him to play again . Then ...
... played on his harp and sang to his sheep . One day a man came to David and said , " The King is sad . Come play for him . " David went to the King and played on his harp . The King liked David's playing and asked him to play again . Then ...
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... playing with me . Echo . Narcissus . Narcissus . You are playing with me . I am going away . Echo . I am going away . Narcissus . Echo . Good - by ! Good - by ! THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE I A fisherman sat on 27.
... playing with me . Echo . Narcissus . Narcissus . You are playing with me . I am going away . Echo . I am going away . Narcissus . Echo . Good - by ! Good - by ! THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE I A fisherman sat on 27.
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... play Goody Two - Shoes . Who will play Billy ? Who can spell apple pie ? SOUND DRILL three shut luck lay thing ship stick way throne shape thick pray thump sheep black stay A RIDDLE As round as an apple , as deep as a cup , All the ...
... play Goody Two - Shoes . Who will play Billy ? Who can spell apple pie ? SOUND DRILL three shut luck lay thing ship stick way throne shape thick pray thump sheep black stay A RIDDLE As round as an apple , as deep as a cup , All the ...
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... play . In the field where she lay on the hay was a jay . He was very , very gay . For his song he asked no pay . To be happy was just asked little May . his way . " What do you say ? " Drill not only upon the mechanics , but assure ...
... play . In the field where she lay on the hay was a jay . He was very , very gay . For his song he asked no pay . To be happy was just asked little May . his way . " What do you say ? " Drill not only upon the mechanics , but assure ...
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Aladdin asked Blount brave castle cat That caught caught the rat child Cinderella cluck cried crumpled horn David Dick Whittington Doctor Marigold dog That worried Echo ECHO AND NARCISSUS fairy dancer Fitzwarren forlorn That milked George glad Godmother Goody Two-Shoes grunted White Pig horn That tossed house that Jack Jack built Johnny Cake kind King Alfred kissed the maiden LELAND STANFORD letters Little Boy Blue Little fish little mouse little old wife looked lovely magician Magpie Magpie's Nest maiden all forlorn malt That lay milked the cow morning Narcissus night North Wind Old Mother Hubbard pieman Primer Prince Cherry quacked Fat Goose Queen rabbit Red Hen shoes Simple Simon sister sleep SOLOMON GRUNDY soon Sophy SOUND DRILL squeaked Black Rat story suggestions to teachers Tin Soldier torn That kissed tossed the dog walk Walter Raleigh wheat Woman words worried the cat
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Page 59 - Monday's child is fair of face/ Tuesday's child is full of grace/ Wednesday's child is full of woe/ Thursday's child has far to go...
Page 41 - THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 43 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, 20 That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn...
Page 63 - She went to the hatter's To buy him a hat, But when she came back He was feeding the cat. She went to the barber's To buy him a wig, But when she came back He was dancing a jig. She went to the fruiterer's To buy him some fruit, But when she came back He was playing the flute.
Page 81 - SIMPLE Simon met a pieman Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Let me taste your ware." Says the pieman to Simple Simon, "Show me first your penny"; Says Simple Simon to the pieman. "Indeed I have not any." Simple Simon went a-fishing For to catch a whale; All the water he had got Was in his mother's pail. Simple Simon went to look If plums grew on a thistle; He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle.
Page 44 - ... the maiden all forlorn, that milked the cow with the crumpled horn, that tossed the dog, that worried the cat, that caught the rat, that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built (Z 51).
Page 34 - SOLOMON Grundy, Born on Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday ; This is the end Of Solomon Grundy ! XL VII.
Page 63 - OLD mother Hubbard, Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone ; But when she came there, The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. She went to the baker's To buy him some bread, But when she came back The poor dog was dead. She went to the joiner's To buy him a coffin, But when she came back The poor dog was laughing.
Page 22 - The cock crows in the morn To tell us to rise, And he who lies late Will never be wise. For early to bed, And early to rise, Is the way to be healthy And wealthy and wise.
Page 14 - Little Boy Blue, Come blow your horn. The sheep are in the meadow, The cows are in the corn.