 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Children's literature - 1922 - 526 pages
...dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood." All too soon this pleasant time came to an end, and the boys must go to their bare, unheated room upstairs.... | |
 | United States. Adjutant-General's Office - 1922 - 156 pages
...dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved? What matter how the north-wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not all... | |
 | Charles Henshaw Ward, Harold Young Moffett - English language - 1922 - 344 pages
...the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andiron's straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...basket stood, With nuts from brown October's wood. Exercise. Read this description over several times. As you read, try to imagine the sights and the... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...and me. Ho! hillyho! heigh O! Hillyho! In the clear October morning. EC STEDMAN — Autumn Song. 22 elf, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. ADDISO WHITTIER— .S'/ OLIVE Olea Europcea See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - American poetry - 1923 - 552 pages
...wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; 20 And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andiron's straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood a With nuts from brown October's wood. Next morn we wakened with the shout Of merry voices high and... | |
 | Howard Copeland Hill, Rollo La Verne Lyman - Readers - 1924 - 564 pages
...cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - Gesture - 1920 - 668 pages
...cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons ' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | Education - 1906 - 602 pages
...will, have a real charm, is not in the schoolrooms, but. in the snug home of a winter's night when The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row. The very atmosphere and situation of most schoolrooms serve as a damper on story-telling. To tell his... | |
 | Olive Beaupré Miller - Children's literature - 1922 - 456 pages
...cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood, With nuts from brown October's wood. WINTER NEIGHBORS* John Burroughs THE country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved? What matter how the north-wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not all... | |
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The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons... 
