Mother Truth's Melodies: Common Sense for Children. A KindergartenG. W. Carleton & Company, 1879 - 215 páginas |
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Mother Truth's Melodies: Common Sense for Children. A Kindergarten Mrs. E. P. Miller Vista completa - 1883 |
Mother Truth's Melodies: Common Sense for Children. A Kindergarten Mrs. E. P. Miller Vista completa - 1879 |
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Axis baby bees birds bob-o-link bones Brive C-A-T SPELLS CAT cage Camels caught chicky-bid child chink-a-chee clothes Clove-trees cold dainty darling is ill dear children dear Mama dive Doll DOLLY DIMPLE drones ducklet Earth EIGH-HO EIGHT Elzie Elzie's eyes feathers FEED THE BIRDIES feet gayly girl grow hear Here's Hi-diddle Hi-diddle-diddle honey hot flannels human Humpty-dumpty Hush-a-bye jingle kitten laddie-bird says larvæ lassie-bird laugh Limpy-dimpy-dingle Little boy blue little chick-a-dees LITTLE JACK HORNER Mama Mamma Mammoth Cave mate milk MISS VELVET-PAWS MOTHER TRUTH'S MELODIES nest never nice NINE Nut-galls pank panky PAT-A-CAKE Planets POLLY HOPKINS pony Pop-diddle-dee queen race rain Rock-a-bye round run and tumble says little Bo-Peep SEVEN shine Show sing snake charmed snow soft soon Stands sure sweet Tause tell toss tree trossness true Truth velvet paws We'll soon WHISKUM WINKUM wonder such things wondrous
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Página 120 - Twenty-eight, and there are no more. And now altogether these many bones fix, And they count in the body two hundred and six* And then we have the human mouth, Of upper and under, thirty-two teeth. And now and then have a bone, I should think.
Página 116 - Eight, my child, as I've often said. How many bones in the human ear? Three in each, and they help to hear. How many bones in the human spine? Twenty-six, like a climbing vine. How many bones in the human chest? Twenty-four ribs, and two of the rest.
Página 118 - In each one, two in each forearm. How many bones in the human wrist ? Eight in each, if none are missed. How many bones in the palm of the hand ? Five in each, with many a band. How many bones in the fingers ten ? Twenty-eight, and by joints they bend.
Página 119 - Eight in each if none are missed. How many bones in the palm of the hand? Five in each, with many a band. How many bones in the fingers ten? Twenty-eight, and by joints they bend. How many bones in the human hip? One in each; like a dish they dip. How many bones in the human thigh? One in each and deep they lie. How many bones in the human knees? One in each, the kneepan, please. How many bones in the leg from knee?
Página 120 - One in each, and deep they lie. How many bones from the leg to the knee ? Two in each and plain to see. How many bones in the ankle strong? Seven In each, but none are long. How many bones in the ball of the foot? Five in each, as the palms were put. How many bones in the toes half-a-score ? Twenty-eight, and then no more. And now altogether these many bones fix And they count in the body two hundred and six. And then we have the human mouth Of upper and under thirty-two teeth. And now and then a...
Página 146 - THE RACCOON. COME, child, and see our pet raccoon, — The raccoons live in the woods, you know But ours was caught And caged, and brought From old Virginia, long ago. Oh, no, you need not be afraid ; See, he is fastened with a chain : For ropes enough He has gnawed off, And he is hard to catch again. He e'en will climb this ten-foot fence, And, careless where his feet may strike, He tumbles, bang ! And there will hang, His rope being caught by vine or spike. So...
Página 149 - So now he's chained ; yet up he'll climb The stake to which he's fastened tight, And mutter low, So pleading, Oh ! 'Twould make you sorry for him, quite. Just see his nose, so pointed, sharp, — His ears as keen as keen can be, — His eyes so bright, So full of light, And see him leap right merrily ! His fur, you see, is yellowish gray, — And he is nearly two feet long ; He lives on roots, And nuts and fruits, When he's his native woods among. But here we give him bread and milk ; He never eats...
Página 121 - ... There were dozens of poems endorsing a temperate consumption of liquor and tobacco, as there must have been in every period of nineteenth century American poetry. The poets gave advice to parents of adolescents and wrote verse essays on biological problems. One poem, entitled "Wholly hole-y...
Página 95 - " Sometimes the air is light, And cannot bear up all the mists, And then 'tis foggy, quite ; But when air heavier grows, The fog is borne above, And floated off, the cloudy stuff, Just see it, graceful, move.
Página 3 - MOTHER TRUTH'S | MELODIES. COMMON SENSE FOR CHILDREN. | A KINDERGARTEN, BY MRS. EP MILLER, | AUTHOR OF "A FATHER'S ADVICE: A BOOK FOR EVERY BOY," AND "A MOTHER'S ADVICE: A BOOK FOR EVERY GIRL.