My Awkward Cousin, Or, Caroline's Visit to Her Great-aunt's Poultry YardAmerican Sunday-School Union, 1848 - 107 pàgines |
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Pàgina 8
... walking on our parlour carpet with her great iron - shod shoes . Every time she came , she brought me fresh eggs from her poultry yard , and fruits from her garden , and loaded me with kindnesses , without being able to obtain my ...
... walking on our parlour carpet with her great iron - shod shoes . Every time she came , she brought me fresh eggs from her poultry yard , and fruits from her garden , and loaded me with kindnesses , without being able to obtain my ...
Pàgina 18
... so ; but my aunt was considerate , and knew that at my age I must have amuse- ments , and she took unwearied pains to furnish them for me . But what were those amusements ! Long walks through the 18 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
... so ; but my aunt was considerate , and knew that at my age I must have amuse- ments , and she took unwearied pains to furnish them for me . But what were those amusements ! Long walks through the 18 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
Pàgina 19
But what were those amusements ! Long walks through the fields with my aunt and cousin , who knew and visited no one ! On our return , my aunt always inquired minutely of the girl who kept the yard , about her poultry , geese , pi ...
But what were those amusements ! Long walks through the fields with my aunt and cousin , who knew and visited no one ! On our return , my aunt always inquired minutely of the girl who kept the yard , about her poultry , geese , pi ...
Pàgina 20
... walks , I was trying to find some way to make my aunt understand that I should prefer staying at home , when Kitty came to bring me a letter . Oh what joy ! It was a joy that no words can describe . At first I devoured my good parents ...
... walks , I was trying to find some way to make my aunt understand that I should prefer staying at home , when Kitty came to bring me a letter . Oh what joy ! It was a joy that no words can describe . At first I devoured my good parents ...
Pàgina 24
... walk , for you must have something to amuse you . ' " Aunt , " replied I , hesitatingly , " I want to tell you that the walks do not amuse me at all . " 66 aunt . Oh , so much the better , " said my " Augustus and I thought you en ...
... walk , for you must have something to amuse you . ' " Aunt , " replied I , hesitatingly , " I want to tell you that the walks do not amuse me at all . " 66 aunt . Oh , so much the better , " said my " Augustus and I thought you en ...
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Pàgina 105 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Pàgina 3 - The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Pàgina 104 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour.
Pàgina 4 - Congress, in the year 1851, by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 4S* No books are published by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION without the sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen members, from the following denominations of Christians, viz.
Pàgina 105 - And I turned myself to behold wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do that cometh after the king? Even that which hath been already done. Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
Pàgina 28 - Hurdy staggered from the spot, feeling his throat as he went, and turning his head first to one side and then to the other, to see if it was not dislocated.
Pàgina 68 - I hardly listened to a word that was said, and as soon as I could get away, I ran up to my room.