Category: books
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“The Queen of Hearts”
The speaker is puzzled by Flora’s consistent ability to hold the Queen of Hearts while playing cards, suggesting mystery and skill.
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 17: The Ocean Gossips
Dr. Dolittle chops a hole in the locked door with an axe and finds a small boy inside. The boy explains that pirates threw his uncle into the sea for refusing to join them, and he fears his uncle has drowned. Dr. Dolittle speaks with the porpoises and discovers the uncle is safe. Overjoyed, the…
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Uphill By Christina Georgina Rossetti
Uphill By Christina Georgina Rossetti Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 16: Too-Too, the Listener
Dr. Dolittle and the animals set sail on a pirate ship, eagerly exploring its many wonders. They discover the ship is filled with fancy treasures, but their curiosity leads them to a locked room they can’t open. From behind the door, Too-too the owl hears someone crying, prompting Dr. Dolittle to grab an axe and…
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Summer By Christina Georgina Rossetti
Summer By Christina Georgina Rossetti Winter is cold-hearted,Spring is yea and nay,Autumn is a weathercockBlown every way:Summer days for meWhen every leaf is on its tree; When Robin’s not a beggar,And Jenny Wren’s a bride,And larks hang singing, singing, singing,Over the wheat-fields wide,And anchored lilies ride,And the pendulum spiderSwings from side to side, And blue-black…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Chapter 15: The Barbary Dragon
When Gub-Gub sneezes, the pirates hear it and rush upstairs to check things out. Ben Ali, the Barbary Dragon and leader of the crew, threatens to turn Dab-Dab the duck and Gub-Gub the pig into roast duck and pork chops. Dr. Dolittle keeps the pirates talking, stalling for time in hopes the old ship they’re…
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Signs of Spring by Mary Austin
Signs of Spring Cream-cups, butter-cups, Dandelions and sedges; Blackbirds in the poplar row, Sparrows in the hedges; Fruit-buds in the orchard Swelling with the rain; All the close-fed pasture-lands Growing green again. Poppies on the river-bluff Soon will wake from sleeping; Home along the foothills Woolly clouds a-creeping.
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 14: The Rats’ Warning
Chapter 14: The Rats’ Warning Dragging a ship through the sea is hard work. And after two or three hours the swallows began to get tired in the wings and short of breath. Then they sent a message down to the Doctor to say that they would have to take a rest soon; and that…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: Watch Lessons
WATCH LESSONS My grandfather was a foreman in a tannery for a great many years. Finally, as he was approaching seventy years of age, he left the tannery to retire to a quieter life. The men who worked in his department had a real affection for him. As an expression of that esteem they presented…
