FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   >>  
ion] THEY DIDN'T HAVE A PENNY, AND COULDN'T BORROW ANY, AND THEY OWED EXACTLY HALF A DIME FOR COAL; SO THEY SAID, "WE'LL RUN AWAY,"-- WHEN A GOOSE CAME OUT TO SAY: "YOU MUST PAY TWO CENTS APIECE ALL 'ROUND FOR TOLL!" [Illustration] A Raging, Roaring Lion, of a Lamb-devouring kind, Reformed and led a sweet, submissive life. For with face all steeped in smiles He propelled a Lamb for miles, And he wed a woolly Spinster for a wife. [Illustration: Quits.] [Illustration: The Genial Grimalkin] There was an old Cat named Macduff Who could joke till you cried, "Hold, enough!" His Wife and his Child so persistently smiled That their cheeks got a permanent puff. [Illustration: Euchred!] [Illustration] "OH, dear Papa!" three children cried. "You promised don't you know? That next when you should take a ride All three of us should go." "I DID," that father said. "You know I never speak at random. So get your roller-skates. We'll go Off in a tearing tandem!" [Illustration: Study of Hedgehog Stealing Apple.] [Illustration] A Lion emerged from his lair For a short summer cut to his hair. But the Barber he wept; While his customers slept As they waited their turn in the chair. [Illustration] When the Barber at last shut his shop, From the clouds a Bald Eagle did drop, To purchase a lotion, A brush, or some "notion" To make the hair grow on his top. [Illustration] The Spring Curtain. A drama in five acts. 1. Which? 2. The Choice. [Illustration] 3. The Rivals. 4. "Ha, the Spring Curtain!" [Illustration] 5. Revenge. [Illustration] "'T is a perfect picnic day!" the little dog did say, As he found his friends all ready for the train, "Still, I thought 't would ease your mind Not to leave this thing behind,-- For you know a bonnet suffers so from rain." [Illustration] A Tam o' Shanter Dog And a plaintive piping Frog, With a Cat whose one extravagance was clothes, Went to see a Bounding Bug Dance a jig upon a rug, While a Beetle balanced bottles on his nose. [Illustration: The Donkey and his Company.] A desultory Dog once met a discontented D
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   >>  



Top keywords:

Illustration

 

Spring

 
Curtain
 

Barber

 

customers

 

summer

 

clouds

 
purchase
 

waited

 

notion


lotion

 

perfect

 

clothes

 
extravagance
 
Bounding
 

Shanter

 

plaintive

 
piping
 

desultory

 

Company


discontented
 

Donkey

 
Beetle
 

balanced

 

bottles

 

picnic

 

Revenge

 

Choice

 

Rivals

 
friends

suffers

 

bonnet

 

thought

 
devouring
 

Reformed

 
Roaring
 
Raging
 

APIECE

 

submissive

 
woolly

Spinster

 
propelled
 
steeped
 

smiles

 

EXACTLY

 

BORROW

 

COULDN

 
Genial
 
Grimalkin
 

father