The Play-day Book: New Stories for Little FolksMason Brothers, 1857 - 286 páginas |
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Página 164 - Abide with me ; fast falls the even-tide ; The darkness deepens ; Lord, with me abide ; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day ; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away : Change and decay in all around I see ; 0 Thou Who changest not, abide with me.
Página 19 - THREE wise men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl; If the bowl had been stronger, My song had been longer.
Página 152 - Andy often watched the black engine, with its long trail, as it came fizzing past, belching out great clouds of steam and smoke, 'and screeching through the valleys and under the hills like a mad demon. Although it went by the hut every day, yet he...
Página 154 - And that is not all, they took out their purses and made up a large sum of money for him, not that they could ever repay the service he had done them, — they knew that, — but to show him in some way besides in mere words that they felt grateful. 10. Now that boy had presence of mind. Good, brave little Andy! The passengers all wrote down his name — Andy Moore — and the place he lived in, and if you wish to know what was done for him, I will tell you. He was sent to school, and, in after years...
Página 9 - Susy's mother laughed, and said that she didn.t like them when she was her age. " There now — there — I'm ready, now begin. But don't say ' Once on a time,' I hate ' Once on a time ;' I always know it is going to be a hateful story when it begins ' Once on a time.' " " Anything more, Susy ?" " Yes, mother : don't end it, ' They lived ever after in peace, and died happily.' I hate that, too." " Well, upon my word. I did not know I had such a critic for a listener. I am afraid you will have to...
Página 8 - Have you thought of it, mother ?" " Yes." " Well, that's nice ; let me get another card to wind that skein on, when I have done this. I hope it is a long story, I hope it is funny, I hope there ain't any 'moral' in it. Katy Smith's mother always puts a moral in. I don't like morals, do you, mother?" Susy's mother laughed, and said that she didn.t like them when she was her age. " There now — there — I'm ready, now begin. But don't say
Página 152 - One day, as Andy was strolling across the track, he saw that there was something wrong about it. He did not know much about railroad tracks, because he was as yet quite a little lad, but the rails seemed to be wrong somehow, and Andy had heard of cars being thrown off by such things.
Página 154 - God bless the boy." And that is not all, they took out their purses and made up a large sum of money for him, not that they could ever repay the service he had done them, — they knew that, — but to show him in some way besides in mere words that they felt grateful.
Página 158 - Well, do you wish money to give them?" — " No; papa gave me some this morning, and it is given away."— " Well, what ails my dear child?"—" Oh, I know you won't let me, but if I could run about in that beautiful puddle, it would amuse me more than even good grandmamma's presents ! " What chiefly delighted Napoleon was the firmness of character, and, if the desires of a child may be so termed, the predilection for war, displayed by his intended heir. Often in their amusements, the Emperor would...
Página 199 - Maud's sweet innocent face till you could almost believe it to be an angel's. After John, and his wife, and Maud, had finished their supper, Maud's mother told John what the Indian woman said about wanting the bark of his trees to make baskets of. John crossed his arms on the table, and leaning over it, so as to look his wife full in the face said, " Jenny ! I can understand why the Lord made snakes, and musquitoes, and rats, and cockroaches, but I never could understand why an Indian was made. Now,...