Word from Word Readers, Book 3Silver, Burdett and Company, 1916 |
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beards and wore bend and break Bertha Blackie and Spot blew chin chinny cloaks and hoods cold covered with snow cried discontented donkey eagle everything she wanted fair lady fields and woods fight at night fight beside fire fox went back glad going to drive gone ground is covered happier happiest person happy hard all day hares horse house that Jack housemaid Jack built January king is going king's grounds kingdom laughed leaves of glass leaves of gold little girl little tree London bridge long stick mee-ow mittens mother needles old woman Osborn palace Peter Piper poorest purr-r rats red apples roared the wolf roots to eat Santa Claus Send Mary sleep snow and ice strawberries thank three little Kittens THREE LITTLE PIGS took his long tortoise twelve months violets want leaves wanted to march Whitie wild boar winter WONDERFUL BOY Wood and clay wood to pick wore cloaks
Popular passages
Page 191 - The music stopped and I stood still, And found myself outside the hill, Left alone against my will, To go now limping as before, And never hear of that country more!
Page 190 - The door in the mountain-side shut fast. Did I say, all? No! One was lame, And could not dance the whole of the way; And in after years, if you would blame His sadness, he was used to say, — 'It's dull in our town since my playmates left!
Page 79 - Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes, sir, yes, sir, Three bags full...
Page 182 - I'm able, By means of a secret charm, to draw All creatures living beneath the sun, That creep or swim or fly or run, After me so as you never saw! And I chiefly use my charm On creatures that do people harm, The mole and toad and newt and viper; And people call me the Pied Piper.
Page 181 - I'd my ermine gown sell; I wish I were a mile hence! It's easy to bid one rack one's brain — I'm sure my poor head aches again I've scratched it so, and all in vain, Oh for a trap, a trap, a trap!" Just as he said this, what should hap At the chamber door but a gentle tap? "Bless us," cried the Mayor, "what's that?
Page 180 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: ;"Tis clear...
Page 190 - I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which the Piper also promised me. For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, Joining the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed and...
Page 137 - London bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down. London bridge is falling down, My fair lady!
Page 123 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her. "Don't stand chattering to yourself like that," Humpty Dumpty said, looking at her for the first time; "but tell me your name and your business.
Page 136 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!