Our Boys' ChatterboxBelford, Clarke, 1884 - 213 páginas |
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Annie arms auntie baby beautiful began Benny Betsy bird bird-lime birdie boat Bobbit bread cake camel Carrie court-martial cousins cried dear little dinner doll dolly door Edwin Brown eyes face fairy-stories father Finger Freddy Freta froggies glad grandma grandmother hands happy head heard horse hungry Janey Katy keep kittens knew lamb laughed little boy little coat little doll little girl lived look mamma Molly morning mother Nannie naughty Nelly NELLY'S never nice night Noah's ark Nora Nursie Oakfield once pail papa POOR JACK poor little pretty pudding pussy queer raisins ride Rover Russia sailor sand sick sister smiled sobbed sorry sure sweet swing Tabby tears tell thing thought tiger told Tommy Smith took Top-Knot Trotty turnover warm Willy wonder
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Página 99 - Whatsoe'er you find to do, Do it, boys, with all your might: Never be a little true, Or a little in the right. Trifles even Lead to heaven; Trifles make the life of man: So in all things, Great or small things, Be as thorough as you can.
Página 179 - I once had a sweet little doll, dears, The prettiest doll in the world ; Her cheeks were so red and so white, dears, And her hair was so charmingly curled. But I lost my poor little doll, dears, As I played in the...
Página 181 - He could not read nor write, and did not care to do either; and he never washed himself, for there was no water up the court where he lived. He had never been taught to say his prayers.
Página 185 - And then, looking toward the bed, he saw that dirty lady, and held his breath with astonishment. Under the snow-white coverlet, upon the snowwhite pillow, lay the most beautiful little girl that Tom had ever seen. Her cheeks were almost as white as the pillow, and her hair was like threads of gold spread all about over the bed. She might have been as old as Tom, or maybe a year or two older; but Tom did not think of that.
Página 184 - Bishops, but round the back way ; and a very long way round it was ; and into a little back-door, where the ash-boy let them in, yawning horribly ; and then in a passage the housekeeper met them, in such a flowered chintz dressing-gown, that Tom mistook her for My Lady herself and she gave Grimes solemn orders about " You will take care of this, and take care of that," as if he was going up the chimneys, and not Tom.
Página 185 - ... but at last, coming down as he thought the right chimney, he came down the wrong one, and found himself standing on the hearthrug in a room the like of which he had never seen before. Tom had never seen the like. He had never been in gentlefolks...
Página 181 - He cried half his time, and laughed the other half. He cried when he had to climb the dark flues, rubbing his poor knees and elbows raw; and when the soot got into his eyes, which it did every day in the week; and when his master beat him, which he did every day in the week; and when he had not enough to eat, which happened every day in the week likewise. And he laughed the other half of the day, when he was tossing halfpennies with the other boys, or playing leap-frog over the posts, or bowling...
Página 182 - ... to him to know where Mr. Grimes, the chimney-sweep, lived. Now Mr. Grimes was Tom's own master, and Tom was a good man of business, and always civil to customers, so he put the half-brick down quietly behind the wall, and proceeded to take orders. Mr. Grimes was to come up next morning to Sir...
Página 182 - Now, I dare say, you never got up at three o'clock on a midsummer morning. Some people get up then because they want to catch salmon ; and some, because they want to climb Alps ; and a great many more, because they must, like Tom. But, I assure you, that three o'clock on a midsummer morning is the pleasantest time of all the twenty-four hours, and all the three hundred and sixty-five days ; and why...
Página 92 - Master Bullfrog, grave and stern, Called the classes in their turn; Taught them how to nobly strive, Likewise how to leap and dive; From his seat upon the log Showed them how to say, " Ker-chog ! " Also how to dodge a blow From the sticks that bad boys throw.