| Robert Demaus - 1860 - 296 pągines
...on a holiday, filled my pockets with halfpence. I went directly towards a shop, where toys were sold for children, and being charmed with the sound of...in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for it. I then came home, and went whistling over the house, much pleased with my... | |
| Walter Keating Kelly - 1861 - 258 pągines
...its author, Benjamin Franklin : — " When I was a child of seven years old my friends on a holiday filled my pockets with coppers. I went directly to...whistle that I met by the way in the hands of another hoy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for it. I then came home, and went whistling all over the... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pągines
...WHISTLE. \VTien I was a child, at seven years old, my fricnds, on a holiday, filled my little pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop, where they...in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pągines
...WHISTLE. When I was a child, at seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my little pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop, where they...children ; and, being charmed with the sound of a whiMe, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money fbr... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pągines
...honey and wax." Swift. THE WHISTLE. WHEN I was a child, at seven years old, my friends on a holiday filled my pockets with coppers. I went directly to...in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pągines
...Story — Written to his Nephew. WHEN I was a child, at seven years oki, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with coppers. I went directly to...in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with... | |
| James Parton - 1864 - 668 pągines
...a child of seven years old," he wrote, sixty-six years after the event, " my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with coppers. I went directly to...for children ; and being charmed with the sound of a whittie, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, 1 voluntarily offered and gave all my money... | |
| Thomas Simpson Birkby - 1864 - 106 pągines
...holiday time, filled my pockets with half-pence. I went at once to find a toy shop, but, being charmed by the sound of a whistle that I met by the way, in the hands of a boy, I willingly gave him all my half-pence for it. I then came home, and went whistling all over... | |
| Alfred Baskerville - 1865 - 406 pągines
...When I was a child, at seven years old, my friends, on a holyday, filled my pocket with coppers7). I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children; and being charmed with the sound of a 1) @ie ju biefem SDienjh cmeevMblt. 2) »erantaffen. 3) nttt bev. 4) bte Sijl. 5) auSjugeben. 6) The... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1865 - 300 pągines
...directly toward a shop, where toys were sold for children ; and being charmed with the sound of a wJvisfa, that I met by the way, in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily1 offered him all my money for it. 2. I then came home, and went whistling over the house,... | |
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