 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
 | Kate Van Wagenen - Spellers - 1923 - 152 pages
...lilies to-night writer baker friends 9 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. can'dle quite oth'er — 1 ROBERT Louis STEVENSON. 10 There were forty angry geese flying for'ty here... | |
 | Caroline Bartlett Crane - Architecture, Domestic - 1925 - 270 pages
..."Alas! they drag me out at night, to not so much as candlelight! When morning conies, I have no say; I have to go to bed by day! I have to go to bed and see those old clothes hanging on their tree, and hear — where eve will plant my feet — my jailers talk... | |
 | Elizabeth Newman - Music - 1925 - 166 pages
...boat, Nurse helps me in when I embark. 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. Original Verses by Children My pussy's fur is soft as silk, When I have dinner, she has milk. As I... | |
 | Julia Helen Wohlfarth - 1926 - 152 pages
...in front f • 17 mine nine vine fell tell side hide wide mild wild child pipe ripe wipe spell 18 " In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light." yel low can dle night age year han dle tight cage Does the / or the e come first in the last part of... | |
 | Mary Roberts Rinehart - Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) - 1927 - 276 pages
...in the end. At four in the morning, we rose from our beds and dressed — like Stevenson's lines : In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. Then, while the Head carried the fishing-tackle, I wrapped up in my slicker the following articles... | |
 | English literature - 1912 - 164 pages
...represent the child mind. Of these there must be nearly twenty. Take the verses on the first page : 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 The birds still hopping on the tree, Or... | |
 | Child labor - 1925 - 224 pages
...can't do college work even if I haven't had algebra." A CHILD-LABOR GARDEN OF VERSES Bed in Winter In winter, I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light ; And then I shiver on my way To make the plant by break of day. Young Night-Thought All night long... | |
 | Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...the sun? Robert Louis Stevenson did: 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 remember feeling really annoyed about that myself. The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy. 1 1 174 A Child's Garden of Verses ' 11151 1 1 175 A Child's Garden of Verses 'Happy Thought' The world is so full of a number of things,... | |
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