Sandford and Merton: In Words of One SyllableCassell, Petter and Galpin, 1868 - 288 pages |
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Page 142 - ... the effect might cease), and they might say that a magician had carried them off, room and all ; and this was done with all despatch. Two days later Don Quixote got up, and the first thing he did was to go and look at his books, and not finding the room where he had left it, he wandered from side to side looking for it. He came to the place where the door used to be, and tried it with his hands, and turned and twisted his eyes in every direction without saying a word ; but after a good while...
Page 32 - ... after that. At this Tommy lost all patience, and said to himself, ' Now if I could but read like Harry Sandford, I should not need to ask any body to do it for me, and then I could divert myself : and why (thinks he) may not I do what another has done ? To be sure, little Harry is very clever ; but he could not have read if he had not been taught ; and if I am taught, I dare say I shall learn to read as well as he. Well, as soon as ever he comes home, I am determined to ask him about it.
Page 13 - ... severe scolding for his carelessness. After dinner, Mrs Merton filled a large glass of wine, and giving it to Harry, bade him drink it up, but he thanked her, and said he was not dry. " But, my dear," said she, "this is very sweet and pleasant, and as you are a good boy, you may drink it up.
Page 186 - The bat — who could not be said to be bird or beast — at first kept out of the way of both, but when he thought the beasts would O win the day, he was found in their ranks, and to prove his right to be there, he said, ' Can you find a bird that has two rows of teeth in his head as I have ?' At last the birds had the best of the fight, so then the bat was seen to join their ranks.
Page 1 - twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Page 28 - But little Harry, who could not bear to see his friend so unhappy, looked up half crying into Mr. Barlow's face, and said, ' Pray, sir, may I do as I please with my share of the dinner ? ' 'Yes, to be sure, child.' /Why, then,' said he, getting up, 'I will give it all to poor Tommy, who wants it more than I do.
Page 41 - ... way for him. The poor patient Ass, not daring to dispute the matter, quietly got out of his way as fast as he could, and let him go by. Not long after this, the same Horse, in an engagement with the enemy, happened to be shot in the eye, which...
Page 101 - As the day was fine, Tom and Hal took a stroll in a wood, and went so far that they were glad to sit down to rest. By and by a poor dame came up to them. " My dears," said she, " you seem to have lost your way, come and rest in my cot.
Page 89 - Barlow told them the tale of a lark that had a nest of young birds in a field of corn, and one day two men came to look at the state of the crop. " Well," says one of them to his son, " I think this wheat is ripe, so now go and ask our friends to help us to reap it." When the old lark came back to her nest, the young brood told her what they had heard. " So they look to their friends for help,
Page 99 - Stand off from the bank, sir/ said he, 'for you tread it down, which makes the stream thick, and all I can get to drink is foul.' " The lamb said, in a mild tone, that she did not see how that could be, for the brook ran down hill to her from the spot where he stood. "