City and Town: A Fourth ReaderPauline Frost Rafter B.H. Sanborn & Company, 1916 - Всего страниц: 272 |
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Alice asked baby Baker Motor Vehicle beautiful bell birds bright brother burro called candle captain carry CASSOWARY child Christie Christmas cold Collier's Weekly comes Company Copyright Cratchit cried delightful door electricity elephants evergreen eyes father feet finger fire firemen flowers Frank Baker girl glass H. A. GUERBER hall hand Hatter hear heart Helen HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW horse hundred Hurrah Independence Hall Jack Janet king knew lady Lewis Carroll light little hemlock little Patty live looked Miss Moffit morning mother never night old lamp once papa parks Patty Rutter poor Red River Hog round Santa Claus sent shining Snow stand star Stavoren stood stove street tell thing thought Tiny Tim town trees turned Uncle Sam walk watch wind window wish wonderful yard-dog York young knight
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Стр. 136 - And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Стр. 180 - My stockings there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem; And there upon the ground I sit, And sing a song to them. " And often after sunset, sir, When it is light and fair, I take my little porringer And eat my supper there. " The first that died was Sister Jane; In bed she moaning lay, Till God released her of her pain; And then she went away.
Стр. 121 - For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is...
Стр. 178 - 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.
Стр. 56 - Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner, at the table ; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and, mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.
Стр. 135 - Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone.
Стр. 47 - The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
Стр. 240 - How beautiful is the rain ! After the dust and heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful is the rain ! How it clatters along the roofs, Like the tramp of hoofs ! How it gushes and struggles out From the throat of the overflowing spout ! Across the window-pane It pours and pours ; And swift and wide, With a muddy tide, Like a river down the gutter roars The rain, the welcome rain...
Стр. 57 - ... gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah!
Стр. 142 - Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glowworm by his spark; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent Did you admire my lamp...