Leading-strings to Knowledge: Thirty-two Easy Stories

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Page 165 - MOTHER GOOSE'S MELODIES. The only Pure Edition. Containing all that have ever come to light of her Memorable Writings, together with those which have been discovered among the mss. of Herculaneum. Likewise every one recently found in the same stone box which hold the golden plates of the Book of Mormon.
Page 168 - BRANDE.-A DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART ; comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge ; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use.
Page 84 - LEADING-STRINGS. she had ever eaten. Now Alfred had never tasted oyster patties, so he said he would have oyster patties for dinner. "Oyster patties, my dear boy! you cannot have oyster patties in this part of the country at this time of the year; there are no oysters to be had," his mother said to him. "Try, love, to think of something naughty Alfred said,
Page 17 - He made a present of them to his daughter, Miss Charlotte Fletcher, who was very fond of them, and fed them herself every day. One of these peacocks was very beautiful ; he had a fine long tail, which trailed after him as he walked, and which he frequently spread out for the admiration of those who stopped to look at him. But this peacock ! was not so good as he was handsome ; for he was proud* greedy, and ill-natured ; and because the other peacock, which was a white one, had not so fine a plumage...
Page 165 - Likewise every one recently found in the same stone box which hold the golden plates of the Book of Mormon. The Whole Compared, Revised, and Sanctioned, by one of the Annotators of the Goose Family. With many new engravings.
Page 168 - The LITTLE GRAMMARIAN ; or, An Easy Guide to the Parts of Speech, and familiar Illustrations of the leading Rules of Syntax. In a Series of instructive and amusing Tales. By the Rev. W. FLETCHER.
Page 9 - ... time the white peacock spread out his tail, the other would, set up such a frightful scream, as made him close it up directly, and run away into some corner to hide himself. When these birds were given to Miss Fletcher, she admired that with the fine plumage, and said he should be called her handsome favorite, for she did not know of his faults ; neither did he treat the other ill in her sight for some time ; but, one day, when she was feeding them from the parlor window, she happened to throw...
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