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George Routledge & Sons, Broadway, 1868 - 190 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 59 - My Mother. Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother.
Pàgina 175 - THE POPPY. HIGH on a bright and sunny bed A scarlet poppy grew, And up it 'held its staring head, And thrust it full in view. Yet no attention did it win, By all these efforts made, And less unwelcome had it been In some retired shade. Although within its scarlet breast No sweet perfume was found, It seemed to think itself the best Of all the flowers around.
Pàgina 63 - In a dairy a crow, Having ventured to go, Some food for her young ones to seek, Flew up in the trees, With a fine piece of cheese, Which she joyfully held in her beak.
Pàgina 175 - DOWN in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew ; Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colors bright and fair ! It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there.
Pàgina 174 - How pleasant it is at the end of the day No follies to have to repent; But reflect on the past, and be able to say That my time has been properly spent. When I've done all my business with patience and care, And been good, and obliging, and kind, I lie on my pillow and sleep away there, With a happy and peaceable mind.
Pàgina 26 - WAKE, little girl, it is time to arise, Come shake drowsy sleep from your eye ; The lark is now warbling his notes to the skies, And the sun is far mounted on high.
Pàgina 93 - To peep at what was in it ; Or tilt the kettle, if you did But turn your back a minute. In vain you told her not to touch, Her trick of meddling grew so much. Her grandmamma went out one day, And by mistake she laid Her spectacles and snuff-box gay, Too near the little maid. " Ah ! well," thought she, " I'll try them on, As soon as grandmamma is gone.
Pàgina 134 - They laid themselves down on the herbage at last, And waiting politely as gentlemen must, The ass held his tongue, that the cow might speak first. Then with a deep sigh, she directly began, " Don't you think, Mr. Ass, we are injured by man ? 'Tis a subject that lays with a weight on my mind : We certainly are much oppressed by mankind.
Pàgina 153 - I cast my eyes round me again, In hopes some protector to see ; Alas! but the search was in vain, For none had compassion on me. I cast my eyes up to the sky, I groan'd, tho' I said not a word ; Yet God was not deaf to my cry, The friend of the fatherless heard.
Pàgina 134 - Was musing, perhaps; or perhaps she might dream. But soon a brown ass, of respectable look, Came trotting up also, to taste of the brook, And to nibble a few of the daisies and grass. " How d'ye do ? " said the cow : " How d'ye do ? " said the ass. "Take a seat," cried the cow, gently waving her hand. " By no means, dear madam," said he,

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