Stories Children Love: A Collection of Stories Arranged for Children and Young People of Various AgesCharles Welsh Dodge Publishing Company, 1909 - 439 páginas |
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Página 204
... Jobson - for that was the name of the laboring man - had to spend hours every day grinding the grain into flour for his wife and fam- ily to eat . One day , after he had been grinding until his back ached and his arms were very tired ...
... Jobson - for that was the name of the laboring man - had to spend hours every day grinding the grain into flour for his wife and fam- ily to eat . One day , after he had been grinding until his back ached and his arms were very tired ...
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... Jobson looked again , and wondered at the immense size of the giant . He could hardly see to the end of him , and he saw that he was enormously strong ; yet he looked so harmless and good - humored that Jobson stood gazing on him till ...
... Jobson looked again , and wondered at the immense size of the giant . He could hardly see to the end of him , and he saw that he was enormously strong ; yet he looked so harmless and good - humored that Jobson stood gazing on him till ...
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... Jobson saw him open his eyes he started to run again , feeling sure that he could have no chance if so huge a giant were to catch him ; but as he ran the giant spoke . He was still lying down on his back in the grass , and his voice was ...
... Jobson saw him open his eyes he started to run again , feeling sure that he could have no chance if so huge a giant were to catch him ; but as he ran the giant spoke . He was still lying down on his back in the grass , and his voice was ...
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... Jobson , " would you work for me ? " " Yes , " said the giant ; " if you will teach me . " " But what wages must I pay you ? " asked Jobson . Then the giant laughed , and said , " What queer words you use . You say ' belong . ' What ...
... Jobson , " would you work for me ? " " Yes , " said the giant ; " if you will teach me . " " But what wages must I pay you ? " asked Jobson . Then the giant laughed , and said , " What queer words you use . You say ' belong . ' What ...
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... Jobson . " Then , " said he , " you must get upon my back , and I will carry you there as quick as you like . " Jobson was afraid , for when he came to look at the giant's back , and put his hand upon it , it sank right in ; then he saw ...
... Jobson . " Then , " said he , " you must get upon my back , and I will carry you there as quick as you like . " Jobson was afraid , for when he came to look at the giant's back , and put his hand upon it , it sank right in ; then he saw ...
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Æsop Ali Baba Alice Aquafluens asked Baba Mustapha Bear beautiful began Blue Beard brother brought Bullam captain Cassim Chicken-licken clothes cried dear Dobrunka doll door Dormouse Emperor Ernest eyes father feet fell Fir Tree fire friends gave giant girl give gold Goody Two Shoes grind hand Hatter head heard Hen-len Jack jars Jobson John Ball John Block John Crowder knew lady lived looked March Hare Margery merchants Morgiana morning mother Mouse never night old woman poor porridge replied Rip Van Winkle robbers round says ship shore side Sindbad SINDBAD THE SAILOR sister soon Sophie spelled stick Stone Face stood story teeny-tiny tell things thought Tin Soldier told took turned Ventosus Vinegar voice walked wanted wife Winkle Wolf wood words young
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Página 346 - ... robbed him of his gun. Wolf, too, had disappeared, but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. He whistled after him, and shouted his name, but all in vain; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout, but no dog was to be seen. He determined to revisit the scene of the last evening's gambol, and if he met with any of the party, to demand his dog and gun. As he rose to walk, he found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in his usual activity. "These mountain beds do not agree...
Página 343 - ... valleys ; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village ; and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle. As he was about to descend he heard a voice from a distance hallooing, "Rip Van Wnikle!
Página 299 - One afternoon, when the sun was going down, a mother and her little boy sat at the door of their cottage, talking about the Great Stone Face. They had but to lift their eyes, and there it was plainly to be seen, though miles away, with the sunshine brightening all its features. And what was the Great Stone Face? Embosomed amongst a family of lofty mountains, there was a valley so spacious that it contained many thousand inhabitants. Some of these good people dwelt in log-huts, with the black forest...
Página 338 - The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them ; — in a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible.
Página 337 - ... there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple goodnatured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina. He inherited, however, but little of the martial character of his ancestors.
Página 90 - But I don't want to go among mad people." Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.
Página 181 - ... effort to continue their course; the wheels remained motionless with surprise; the weights hung speechless; each member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation; when hands, wheels, weights, with one voice protested their innocence.
Página 272 - ... her stepping over it dry-shod. Elizabeth looked at the young man, who accompanied this act of devoted courtesy with a profound reverence, and a blush that overspread his whole countenance. The Queen was confused, and blushed in her turn, nodded her head, hastily passed on, and embarked in her barge without saying a word. " Come along, Sir Coxcomb," said Blount ; " your gay cloak will need the brush to-day, I wot.
Página 338 - Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him.
Página 90 - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where -" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. - so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that,