Chambers's narrative series of standard reading books, Libro 3 |
Términos y frases comunes
Argonauts Arithmetic asked Bandy beautiful began bird blind bulls cake called Chambers's cloth gilt cloth lettered cock Colchis cold cottage Cow-boy cried Dame Dreary dear dictation the last donkey Duke eggs fairy ring father feet fiddle fir-stumps fleece fowls gave give gold Golden Touch goose grew half-bound hand happy Hark ye harpies Harry hear the hour Hee haw horse Israel slumbers Jason King Midas Lame last verse laughed lesson Lisa lived looked Maps master Medea merry Merrymind thought milk morning mother neighbours nest never night Pelias Phineus Phrixus piggie plough poor pretty ROBERT CHAMBERS round servants sing speed the right Spell and write stone stranger tell things took tree valley Volumes watch while Israel watchman numbers wing Wood Engravings Woodland House Write from dictation young
Pasajes populares
Página 117 - Oh, no, no," said the little Fly; "to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again." "I'm sure you must be weary, dear, with soaring up so high; Will you rest upon my little bed?" said the Spider to the Fly. "There are pretty curtains drawn around; the sheets are fine and thin, And if you like to rest awhile, I'll snugly tuck you in !
Página 36 - 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 45 - Do you know how many stars There are shining in the sky ? Do you know how many clouds Every day go floating by ? God the Lord has counted all : He would miss one should it fall.
Página 130 - Little lady, this is why I am mounted up so high. 'Tis to sing a. merry song, To the pleasant morning light : Why linger in my nest so long, When the sun is shining bright ? Little lady, this is why I sing so early in the sky. To the little birds below, I do sing a merry tune ; And I let the ploughman know He must come to labour soon. Little lady, this is why I am singing in the sky.
Página 94 - THE WOLF AND THE LAMB AS A WOLF WAS LAPPING AT THE HEAD OF A RUNNING BROOK, he spied a stray Lamb paddling, at some distance, down the stream. Having made up his mind to seize her, he bethought himself how he might justify his violence. "Villain!" said he, running up to her; "how dare you muddle the water that I am drinking?
Página 118 - The Spider turned him round about, and went into his den, For well he knew the silly Fly would soon...
Página 148 - Now some one is dying," thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star fell down a soul mounted up to God.
Página 156 - Go, then," said the stranger, "and plunge into the river that glides past the bottom of your garden. Take likewise a vase of the same water, and sprinkle it over any object that you may desire to change back again from gold into its former substance. If you do this in earnestness and sincerity, it may possibly repair the mischief which your avarice has occasioned.
Página 36 - I cried for her more than a week, dears, But I never could find where she lay. I found my poor little doll, dears, As I played...
Página 159 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.