 IN winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. 1 have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street....  Works: The master of Ballantrae - Page 529by Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896Full view - About this book
 | William Harris Elson - Readers - 1912 - 200 pages
...close to him. "Oho!" said the little boy. "Now I know how to make you come to me!" — Russian Tale. BED IN SUMMER In winter I get up at night, And dress by yellow candle light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed, and... | |
 | Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - English language - 1912 - 236 pages
...lines. What two pictures do you see ? In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle light. In summer, quite the other way I have to go to bed by day. — RL STEVENSON. At what hour did you go to bed last night ? What seasons are named in the lines ?... | |
 | Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden, American Art Association - Autographs - 1913 - 662 pages
..." XXIII. Song of Days. 8 lines. " XXXII. Lesson on the Sea. 20 lines. I BED IN SUMMER. In winter 1 get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light....In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed l>y day. 1 have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's... | |
 | Frances Squire Potter - Spellers - 1913 - 200 pages
...c comes before e and i it usually has the sound of ,. VocABULARY cell cellar cent center LESSON 67 BED IN SUMMER In winter I get up at night, And dress by yellow candle-light. I have to go to bed, and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet... | |
 | Annette Fitch Brewer - 1913 - 404 pages
...10 pm — you know a poet says: "In winter I get up at night — And dress by yellow candle light. In summer quite the other way — I have to go to bed by day." This was quite true here, for in winter, darkness came on by 4 o'clock in the afternoon. We ascended... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 1914 - 1514 pages
...nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask: the heaven above And the road below me. The Vagabond. In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light....summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. Bed in Summer. The pleasant Land of Counterpane. The Land of Counterpane. Youth now flees on feathered... | |
 | Orton Lowe - Children - 1914 - 344 pages
...By at the gallop he goes, and then By he comes back at the gallop again. — ROBERT Louis STEVENSON. BED IN SUMMER In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle light; In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see... | |
 | James Hiram Fassett - Fairy tales - 1914 - 200 pages
...taking hold of his left foot with both hands, he pulled so hard that he tore himself quite in two. BED IN SUMMER In winter I get up at night And dress by yelloAv candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed... | |
 | Henry Carr Pearson, Mary Frederika Kirchwey - Emglish language - 1914 - 328 pages
...are the peacemakers. — BIBLE. 12. Down swept the chill wind from the mountain peak. — LOWELL. 13. In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candlelight. — STEVENSON. 14. After a day of cloud and wind and rain, Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again.... | |
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