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Abbot of Canterbury Alice animals answered Arthur asked began beggar BETHNAL GREEN Bou-Akas Brahman brothers child cloak Coralie Coyote Cricket cried cripple door dramatic eyes father fire Geppetto girl give Gluck gold Good-by Grethel hand head hear heard Hepzibah Hetty Jack Jackal Jael Jim Crow John Halifax John Peter judge lady laugh little voice live looked lord Madam Rain marionette morning mother necklace never night noble old gentleman old women Phoebe piece of wood Pinocchio poor pretty Bessie Red Queen replied Rip Van Winkle river Dee road scene Schwartz SHEPHERD Sir Hector Sir Kay Sir King speak spoke stone stood story sword talk tell thee thing thou thought Tiger to-day told took tree turned voice walked WATER BABIES White Queen wind words young
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Page 35 - The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter 'Little Prig; Bun replied, 'You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel...
Page 196 - Go to the wardrobe-keeper, and he shall have orders to supply the suit which you have cast away in our service. Thou shalt have a suit, and that of the newest cut, I promise thee, on the word of a princess.
Page 154 - How that there had been a revolutionary war — that the country had thrown off the yoke of Old England and that instead of being a subject of his majesty George the Third, he was now a free citizen of the United States. Rip in fact was no politician; the changes of states and empires made but little impression on him; but there was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned and that was petticoat government.
Page 176 - ... carried it clear out from the wearer's shoulders to about four times his own length. Gluck was so perfectly paralyzed by the singular appearance of his visitor, that he remained fixed, without uttering a word, until the old gentleman, having performed another, and a more energetic concerto on the knocker, turned round to look after his fly-away cloak. In so doing he caught sight of Gluck's little yellow head jammed in the window, with its mouth and eyes very wide open indeed. " Hollo ! " said...
Page 176 - His doublet was prolonged behind into something resembling a violent exaggeration of what is now termed a "swallow tail," but was much obscured by the swelling folds of an enormous black, glossy-looking cloak, which must have been very much too long in calm weather, as the wind, whistling round the old house, carried it clear out from the wearer's shoulders to about four times his own length.
Page 182 - A very pretty business, indeed, Mr. Gluck!" said Schwartz. "Dish the mutton, sir. If ever I catch you at such a trick again— bless me, why, the mutton's been cut!" "You promised me one slice, brother, you know,
Page 173 - ... who beheld it, and was commonly called the Treasure Valley. The whole of this little valley belonged to three brothers, called Schwartz, Hans, and Gluck. Schwartz and Hans, the two elder brothers, were very ugly men, with overhanging eyebrows and small dull eyes, which were always half shut, so that you couldn't see into them, and always fancied they saw very far into you.
Page 181 - ... top of it. Then Schwartz was very angry, and ran at the old gentleman to turn him out; but he also had hardly touched him, when away he went after Hans and the rolling-pin, and hit his head against the wall as he tumbled into the corner. And so there they lay, all three. Then the old gentleman spun himself round with velocity in the opposite direction; continued to spin until his long cloak was all wound neatly about him; clapped his cap on his head, very much on one side ( for it could not stand...
Page 153 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name my good woman?
Page 180 - The rolling-pin was descending on Gluck's head; but at the instant, the old gentleman interposed his conical cap, on which it crashed with a shock that shook the water out of it all over the room. What was very odd, the...