Our Young Folks, Volume 3John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton Ticknor and Fields, 1867 |
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Page 65
... Charley ! here's news , - such fun , old fellow ! " - Charley Sharpe lives next door to our house , and we talk to each other over the fence . " What is it , George ? " " Why , Round - the - world Joe has come home ! " " Who's Round ...
... Charley ! here's news , - such fun , old fellow ! " - Charley Sharpe lives next door to our house , and we talk to each other over the fence . " What is it , George ? " " Why , Round - the - world Joe has come home ! " " Who's Round ...
Page 66
... Charley Sharpe is the best - natured boy ever I lived next door to , and when he saw I was on my dignity , as he calls it , he stopped being eccen- tric , and talked sense . " Come , George , don't lose your temper before breakfast , or ...
... Charley Sharpe is the best - natured boy ever I lived next door to , and when he saw I was on my dignity , as he calls it , he stopped being eccen- tric , and talked sense . " Come , George , don't lose your temper before breakfast , or ...
Page 67
... Charley and I agreed to put off our visit to Joe for a day or two , and that evening we got permission to walk down Broadway and see the shop- windows all dressed and lighted up for Christmas . By the by , was n't it lucky for Round ...
... Charley and I agreed to put off our visit to Joe for a day or two , and that evening we got permission to walk down Broadway and see the shop- windows all dressed and lighted up for Christmas . By the by , was n't it lucky for Round ...
Page 68
... Charley . " Pshaw ! " said I. " Keys , then , " said Charley . " Not at all , " said I. " Keys and nails don't jingle so fat ; that ' s money . " Then the boy began to sing : - " I've got sixpence , Jolly , jolly sixpence ; I love my ...
... Charley . " Pshaw ! " said I. " Keys , then , " said Charley . " Not at all , " said I. " Keys and nails don't jingle so fat ; that ' s money . " Then the boy began to sing : - " I've got sixpence , Jolly , jolly sixpence ; I love my ...
Page 69
... Charley Sharpe . Joe began to sing , - he ' s as good as a Dime Warbler , that boy is : " Farewell to Mother ! First - rate she , Who launched me on life's stormy sea , And rigged me fore and aft . May Captain Time her timbers spare ...
... Charley Sharpe . Joe began to sing , - he ' s as good as a Dime Warbler , that boy is : " Farewell to Mother ! First - rate she , Who launched me on life's stormy sea , And rigged me fore and aft . May Captain Time her timbers spare ...
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Page 41 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Page 41 - Let young* and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize? Go, lose or conquer as you can : But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman. A gentleman, or old or young! (Bear kindly with my humble lays;) The sacred chorus first was sung Upon the first of Christmas days : The shepherds heard it overhead — The joyful angels raised it then : Glory to Heaven on high, it said, And peace on earth to gentle...
Page 350 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Page 113 - And away he sped, To open the wonderful box in the shed. His brothers had walked but a little way, When Jotham to Nathan chanced to say, "What is the feller up to, hey!" " Don'o'- — the 's suthin' ur other to pay, Ur he wouldn't 'a
Page 113 - O' this jumpin', thumpin' pain 'n my head." For all the while to himself he said: — "I tell ye what! I'll fly a few times around the lot, To see how 't seems, then soon's I've got The hang o...
Page 109 - IF ever there lived a Yankee lad. Wise or otherwise, good or bad, Who, seeing the birds fly. didn't jump With flapping arms from stake or stump, Or, spreading the tail Of his coat for a sail, Take a soaring leap from post or rail, And wonder why He couldn't fly, And flap and flutter and wish and try — If ever you knew a country dunce Who didn't try that as often as once, All I can say is, that's a sign He never would do for a hero of mine.
Page 116 - And much that wasn't so sweet by half. Away with a bellow fled the calf, And what was that? Did the gosling laugh? 'Tis a merry roar from the old barn-door. And he hears the voice of Jotham crying, "Say, D'rius! how do you like flyin'?
Page 112 - ... of water, which one would think He had brought up into the loft to drink When he chanced to be dry, Stood always nigh, For Darius was sly! And whenever at work he happened to spy At chink or crevice a blinking eye, He let a dipper of water fly. "Take that! an' ef ever ye git a peep, Guess ye'll ketch a weasel asleep!" And he sings as he locks His big strong box: Song "The weasel's head is small an' trim, An' he is little an' long an' slim, An' quick of motion an' nimble of limb, An' ef you'll...
Page 110 - We soon or late shall navigate The azure as now we sail the sea. The thing looks simple enough to me; And if you doubt it, Hear how Darius reasoned about it. "The birds can fly an' why can't I? Must we give in," says he with a grin, "That the bluebird an
Page 109 - He couldn't fly, And flap and flutter and wish and try — If ever you knew a country dunce Who didn't try that as often as once, All I can say is, that's a sign He never would do for a hero of mine. An aspiring genius was D. Green : The son of a farmer, — age fourteen ; His...