Nine Little Goslings

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Roberts Brothers, 1875 - Počet stran: 289
 

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Strana 9 - sighed Johnnie, ruffling her short hairs with her fingers. " I wish my curls were longer. What will she think when she sees me ? " "She'll think " There is a little girl, and she has a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead ; When she is good she is very, very good, And when she is bad she is horrid —
Strana 144 - Hymn. AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily course of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and early rise To pay thy morning sacrifice. 2...
Strana 46 - I could climb little bits of ladders like that," was his next reflection. " Or a fly. I'd like to be a fly, and eat sugar, and say buzzz all day long. Only then perhaps some little boy would get me into the corner of the window and squeeze me all up tight with his fum.
Strana 102 - ... were to be sent for the next two years. Methodist clergymen, you know, are not " called " by the people of the parish, as other clergymen are. They go where the church sends them, and every second year they are all changed to other parishes. This, it is thought, keeps the people and pastors fresh and interested in each other. But I don't know. Human beings, as well as vegetables, have a trick of putting down roots ; and even a cabbage or a potato would resent such transplanting, and would refuse...

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