 The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow — Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India-rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all. He hasn't...  Works: The master of Ballantrae - Page 537by Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Authors, English - 1913 - 336 pages
...got a notion of how children ought to play, And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way. id He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can...stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed. SYSTEM EVERY night my prayers I say, And get my dinner every day; And every day that I've been good,... | |
 | New York State College of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1913 - 948 pages
...To please the child, to paint the rose, The gardener of the World, he goes." Robert Louis Stevenson One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I...stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed." Robert Louis Stevenson " Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1913 - 956 pages
...please the child, to paint the rose, The gardener of the World, he goes." Robert Louis Stevenson " One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I...stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed." Robert Louis Stevenson " Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an... | |
 | Education - 1913 - 608 pages
...beside me, he's a coward you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to met One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I...stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed. — Robert Louis Stevenson Have the children copy two stanzas of the poem. Friday Have the children... | |
 | Etta Austin Blaisdell - 1913 - 168 pages
...beside me, he's a coward you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to mel One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I...stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed. — KOP.EBT Louis STEVENSON. THE UGLY DUCKLING duckling stacks dre^lm^d ugly cra^k^d f6rget bow^d bitten... | |
 | New York (State) Dept. of Agriculture - 1913 - 946 pages
...To please the child, to paint the rose, The gardener of the World, he goes." Robert Louis Stevenson One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I...stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed." Robert Louis Stevenson " Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an... | |
 | Orton Lowe - Children - 1914 - 374 pages
...The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow — Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow ; For he sometimes shoots up taller...stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed. — ROBERT Louis STEVENSON. SWEET AND Low Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea ; Low,... | |
 | May Langdon White, Parker Hoysted Fillmore - Readers - 1914 - 152 pages
...The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow — Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller,...stayed at home behind me, and was fast asleep in bed. — ROBERT Louis STEVENSON The leaves are turning red and The Indians wouM think that the Sky Hunter... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - American poetry - 1915 - 568 pages
...The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow — Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller...stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed. Robert Louis Stevenson THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE When I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Library Commissioners - English poetry - 1915 - 82 pages
...The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow — Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller...stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed. Robert Louis Stevenson THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful... | |
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