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Page 93 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
Page 156 - I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread.
Page 92 - Round as a biscuit Busy as a bee Prettiest little thing You ever did see - a watch.
Page 93 - I was going through a field of wheat, / I picked up something good to eat, / It was neither fish, meat, stick, nor stone, / I kept it till it walked alone.— Egg.
Page 200 - I don't want to be a lady . . . they can't ever ride straddle nor climb a tree, and they got to squinch up their waists and toes.
Page 206 - Miss Minerva's face blazed with indignation. "William's fault indeed!" she answered back. "There never was a sweeter child than William;" for the lonely woman knew the truth at last. At the thought that her little nephew might be hurt, a long forgotten tenderness stirred her bosom and she realized for the first time how the child had grown into her life. The telegram came. "They are all right,
Page 200 - m going to wear pretty clothes and be beautiful and be a belle like mother was, and have lots of lovers kneel at my feet on one knee and play the guitar with the other " "How they goin' to play the guitar with they other knee?
Page 11 - Decimus Ultimus," — the little boy triumphantly put his right forefinger on his left little one, thus making the tenth, "she 's the baby an' she 's got the colic an' cries loud 'nough to wake up Israel ; Wilkes Booth Lincoln say he wish the little devil would die. Peruny Pearline firs...
Page 209 - To-morrow! To-morrow! To-morrow!" cried the Major, happy as a schoolboy. "Next Sunday night after church," pleaded Miss Minerva. "No, not next Sunday or Monday or Tuesday. We will be married to-morrow," declared the dictatorial Confederate veteran.
Page 64 - Teddy bears come out of the woods and ate up forty-two hunderd of 'em." "Why, Frances," reproved Lina, "you always get things wrong. I don't believe they ate up that many children." "Yes, they did too," championed Jimmy, " 'cause it 's in the Bible and Miss Cecilia 'splained all 'bout it to me, and she's our Sunday-School teacher and 'bout the bullyest 'splainer they is. Them Teddy bears ate up 'bout a million chillens, which is all the little boys and girls two Teddy bears can hold at a time.