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... corn . See how active they are , stooping with their sickles , and cutting bunches of the stalks . See also how a man behind them is binding the sheaves , which are after- wards taken on carts to the barn - yard of the farmer . After the ...
... corn . See how active they are , stooping with their sickles , and cutting bunches of the stalks . See also how a man behind them is binding the sheaves , which are after- wards taken on carts to the barn - yard of the farmer . After the ...
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... corn , Then the harvest home is borne . Warm September brings the fruit , Sportsmen then begin to shoot . Fresh October brings the pheasant , Then to gather nuts is pleasant . Dull November brings the blast , Then the leaves are ...
... corn , Then the harvest home is borne . Warm September brings the fruit , Sportsmen then begin to shoot . Fresh October brings the pheasant , Then to gather nuts is pleasant . Dull November brings the blast , Then the leaves are ...
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... corn , lying in a large room , with a great many other grains . We remained there a long time ; when one day a man came and took out a number of us . He put us into a sack , and carried us to a field that had just been ploughed , and ...
... corn , lying in a large room , with a great many other grains . We remained there a long time ; when one day a man came and took out a number of us . He put us into a sack , and carried us to a field that had just been ploughed , and ...
Página 33
... corn was seen at the top , and a few long leaves , like those of grass , grew on the sides of each stalk . Thus , from a small seed of corn , I was changed into a little plant ; and a very pretty change it was . The little roots sucked ...
... corn was seen at the top , and a few long leaves , like those of grass , grew on the sides of each stalk . Thus , from a small seed of corn , I was changed into a little plant ; and a very pretty change it was . The little roots sucked ...
Página 66
... corn is found ; The robin's on a shady bank , With oak - leaves strewed around . 2 . The wren builds in an ivied thorn , Or old and ruined wall ; The mossy nest so covered in , You scarce can see at all . 3 . The martins build their ...
... corn is found ; The robin's on a shady bank , With oak - leaves strewed around . 2 . The wren builds in an ivied thorn , Or old and ruined wall ; The mossy nest so covered in , You scarce can see at all . 3 . The martins build their ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
animals ANOMIA beautiful began bipeds birds Black Forest bread bright bushes called carriages caterpillars Christmas box cloth cold comb corn cottage cowslips cried cuckoo daisy dear little dif'fer.ent drake ears earth eyes Fairy-man father field fish flowers garden George glad gladsome Summer gone grandfather grass green Gregory ground grow hands happy hear hopped lark laugh leaves light-house little oyster looked Lotty March wind MASTER SQUEAK Maurice May-pole mermaids merry month morning mother nest night oak-tree pheasant Plane Geometry plants pretty Princess Sea-hair quadrupeds river Dee Robin Robin Hood seed sheep shew shining side sing snow song spring Stanhope stone sunny banks sweet swing-we tabby cat tell thee things thou thought tiny told took trees village violet wallflower warm weeds whelk winter wood young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 28 - HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
Página 60 - They stole little Bridget For seven years long ; "When she 'came down again Her friends were all gone. They took her lightly back Between the night and morrow, They thought that she was fast asleep, But she was dead with sorrow.
Página 107 - Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother; And in the churchyard cottage I Dwell near them, with my mother.
Página 107 - That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage Girl : She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad: Her eyes were fair, and very fair ; — Her beauty made me glad. "Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be?" "How many? Seven in all," she said, And wondering looked at me.
Página 61 - They took her lightly back Between the night and morrow; They thought that she was fast asleep, But she was dead with sorrow. They have kept her ever since Deep within the lake, On a bed of flag-leaves, Watching till she wake.
Página 60 - UP the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather! Down along the rocky shore Some make their home, They live on crispy pancakes Of yellow tide-foam; Some in the reeds Of the black mountain lake, With frogs for their watch-dogs, All night awake.
Página 109 - And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side". "How many are you, then, "said I, "If they two are in heaven?
Página 115 - These pretty Babes with hand in hand Went wandering up and down; But never more they saw the Man Approaching from the Town. In both these stanzas the words, and the order of the words, in no respect differ from the most unimpassioned conversation. There are words in both, for example, ' the Strand,
Página 98 - And there came the Beetle, so blind and so black, Who carried the Emmet, his friend, on his back, And there was the Gnat and the Dragonfly too, With all their Relations, green, orange and blue.
Página 110 - 11 yoke thee to my cart like a pony in the plough ; My Playmate thou shalt be ; and when the wind is cold Our hearth shall be thy bed, our house shall be thy fold.