In the Child's World: Morning Talks and Stories for Kindergartens, Primary Schools and Homes

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M. Bradley Company, 1908
 

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Pàgina 42 - I'll stop." The dial could scarcely keep its countenance during this harangue ; but resuming its gravity, thus replied : " Dear Mr. Pendulum, I am really astonished that such a useful, industrious person as yourself should have been overcome by this sudden action.
Pàgina 41 - An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable,) changed countenance with alarm; the hands made...
Pàgina 41 - ... effort to continue their course; the wheels remained motionless with surprise; the weights hung speechless; each member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation; when hands, wheels, weights, with one voice, protested their innocence.
Pàgina 259 - said the Frost, sweeping down. " No, leave them alone Till the blossoms have grown," Prayed the Tree, while he trembled from rootlet to crown. The Tree bore his blossoms, and all the birds sung: " Shall I take them away ?
Pàgina 360 - When Solomon was reigning in his glory, Unto his throne the Queen of Sheba came, (So in the Talmud you may read the story) Drawn by the magic of the monarch's fame, To see the splendors of his court, and bring Some fitting tribute to the mighty king.
Pàgina 307 - If a man die, shall he live again ? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Pàgina 106 - The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem ; the shepherd, his lamb ; the farmer, corn; the miner, a gem; the sailor, coral and shells; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.
Pàgina 43 - ... it brightened up, as if nothing had been the matter. When the farmer came down to breakfast that morning, upon looking at the clock, he declared that his watch had gained half an hour in the night. MORAL. A celebrated modern writer says, " Take care of the minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Pàgina 124 - It's not polite to contradict — Your pardon I implore — But in the fullest stocking there I could put one thing more." "Oh, ho!" laughed Santa. "Silly mouse, Don't I know how to pack? By filling stockings all these years I should have learned the knack." And then he took the stocking down From where it hung so high, And said, "Now put in one thing more, I give you leave to try.
Pàgina 402 - I am old, so old, I can write a letter; My birthday lessons are done: The lambs play always, they know no better; They are only one times one.

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