Talking with the Pencil: Primary Lessons in Language

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American Book Company, 1898 - 128 pages

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Page 35 - Some of the starry spikes left in. Where did you get that little tear ? I found it waiting when I got here. What makes your forehead so smooth and high t A soft hand stroked it as I went by. What makes your cheek like a warm white rose I
Page 70 - They drive home the cows from the pasture, Up through the long shady lane, Where the quail whistles loud in the wheat fields, That are yellow with ripening grain. They find in the thick waving grasses Where the scarlet-lipped strawberry grows; They gather the earliest snowdrops, And the first crimson buds of the rose.
Page 76 - 4. The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky, Their giant branches tossed.
Page 40 - Come, little leaves," said the wind one day, " Come o'er the meadows with me, and play. Put on your dresses of red and gold. Summer is gone and the days grow cold.
Page 80 - and greenest, Where the hazel bank is steepest, Where the shadow falls the deepest, — Up the water and over the lea: That 's the way for Billy and me.
Page 80 - Where the blackbird sings the latest, Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest, Where the mowers mow the cleanest, Where the hay lies thickest and greenest,
Page 57 - you If I could fly ; It must be so beautiful Why, little birdie — Why don't you go ? You sit on my finger, And shake your head " No!" He 's off! Oh, how quickly And gladly he rose ! I know he will love me Wherever he goes.
Page 57 - Good-bye, little birdie! Fly to the sky, Singing and singing A merry good-bye. Tell all the birdies Flying above, Nell in the garden Sends them her love. Tell how I found you Hurt in a tree, Then, when they 're wounded, They
Page 56 - A man of words, and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.
Page 34 - Out of the sky as I came through. What makes the light in them sparkle and spin

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