Boys' and Girls' Bookshelf: Little journeys into booklandUniversity Society, 1912 |
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... tell their secrets and whisper of the things of flowerland about which we people know nothing . And all the time you could be really telling about your garden , and de- scribing exactly how it is laid out , and what sort of flowers grow ...
... tell their secrets and whisper of the things of flowerland about which we people know nothing . And all the time you could be really telling about your garden , and de- scribing exactly how it is laid out , and what sort of flowers grow ...
Page 94
... tell only the plain facts . One tries to make a story interesting - to put in the things he thought rather than the things that hap- pened . So a story - teller soon finds out that he can make a story quite different by tell- ing it in ...
... tell only the plain facts . One tries to make a story interesting - to put in the things he thought rather than the things that hap- pened . So a story - teller soon finds out that he can make a story quite different by tell- ing it in ...
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... tell lies ? Topsy . I never tell no lies , Miss Feely . It ' s jist the truth I ' ve been tellin ' now . It an't nothin ' else . Miss Ophelia . Topsy , I shall have to whip you , if you tell lies so . Topsy . [ Beginning to cry ] Laws ...
... tell lies ? Topsy . I never tell no lies , Miss Feely . It ' s jist the truth I ' ve been tellin ' now . It an't nothin ' else . Miss Ophelia . Topsy , I shall have to whip you , if you tell lies so . Topsy . [ Beginning to cry ] Laws ...
Contents
OUR GREAT AMERICAN WRITERS PART I | 1 |
POEMS FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES PART I | 14 |
FIVE GREAT ENGLISH WRITERS INTRODUCED TO LITTLE FOLK | 27 |
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