St. Nicholas, Volum 7

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Mary Mapes Dodge
Scribner & Company, 1879
 

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Pàgina 150 - Mary had a little lamb ; Its fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go.
Pàgina 91 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Pàgina 453 - He is a true-born child of this free hemisphere ! Verdant as the mountains of our country ; bright and flowing as our mineral Licks ; unspiled by withering conventionalities as air our broad and boundless Perearers ! Rough he may be. So air our Barrs. Wild he may be. So air our Buffalers. But he is a child of Natur...
Pàgina 519 - Hark ! hark ! the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town, Some in rags and some in tags, And some in velvet gowns.
Pàgina 320 - ... gave anything to Mary Elizabeth. She shuffled from one to another hopelessly. Every gentleman shook his head. One called for a waiter to put her out. This frightened her and she stood still.
Pàgina 321 - Names used to mean things — in the Bible — when I was as little as you. I read the Bible then. Does Mary Elizabeth mean Angel of Rebuke ? " "Sir?" " Where do you live, Mary Elizabeth ? " " Nowhere, sir." " Where do you sleep ? " " In Mrs. O'Flynn's shed, sir. It 's too cold for the cows! She 's so kind, she lets us stay.
Pàgina 440 - When a twister a-twisting will twist him a twist, For the twisting of his twist, he three twines doth intwist; But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth untwisteth the twist.
Pàgina 320 - ... the gentleman who had given her the money came up, and some more came up, and they gathered round, and she in the midst of them, and they all spoke kindly, and the young man with the bad face that might have been so beautiful, stood up, still clinging to her, and said aloud : — " She 's shamed me before you all, and she 's shamed me to myself ! I 'll learn a lesson from this beggar, so help me God ! " So then, he took the child upon his knee, and the gentlemen came up to listen, and the young...
Pàgina 329 - Come here, little one," he said, holding out his strong white hand to her. She left her chair and went to him, and he put his arms around her, and kissed her, and stroked her long brown hair. " Don't puzzle your little brain too much," he said ; " never mind about the burglars, Nixie.
Pàgina 440 - Twixt the twain inter-twisting a twine more between, He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.

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