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id: 15284
title: The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
author: Potter, Beatrix
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  THE TALE OF JOHNNY TOWN-MOUSE Timmy Willie was a little country mouse who went to town by Timmy Willie, who had lived all his life in a garden, was almost Johnny Town-mouse and his friends noticed it; but had come tumbling in, squeaking and laughing; Timmy Willie learnt with "Try some jelly?" said Johnny Town-mouse. Johnny Town-mouse and his friends racketted about under the few days he grew so thin that Johnny Town-mouse noticed it, and "There goes that cat again!" exclaimed Johnny Town-mouse. So Timmy Willie said good-bye to his new friends, and hid in the hamper Johnny Town-mouse had half promised a visit. The winter passed; the sun came out again; Timmy Willie sat by his it is a little damp," said Johnny Town-mouse, who was carrying "That?" said Timmy Willie, "that is only a cow; I will beg a little "They say we did it; but I know better," said Johnny Town-mouse.


id: 16688
title: Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People
author: Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot
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  This little book is dedicated to parents and children. "Let little children come to me,"-"He made your little heart for joy, And loves a little boy like me. All things proclaim that God is good. Joins in the song that God is good. God sees and hears me all the day, Let every heart rejoice and sing; Let children come this day and bring Know ''tis a Father''s hand you feel; To loving hearts no night e''er gives. The little treasure God has given. THE LITTLE BOY''S MAY-DAY SONG. THE LITTLE BOY''S MAY-DAY SONG. THE LITTLE BOY''S GOOD-NIGHT. THE LITTLE BOY''S GOOD-NIGHT. Come, let us all, with heart and voice, Our hearts would raise this day to heaven. I feel thy little throbbing heart; Little Roland played in the free fresh air; Said a little boy once to his shoes; Christian''s Death; The Hope of Immortality; God our Father.


id: 19993
title: Childhood''s Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1
author: nan
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  "Good day," he said, nodding his wise little head. said the cat, "or we shall be starved; you, little mouse, cannot go mother said: "Boil, little pot!" So it began to cook, and she soon ate bed, than a wolf came along, knocked at the door, and said: "Little The next day the wife said: "The little men have made us rich, and we "And," said the wolf, "where does your good Grannie live, little heart, so she said: "Very well, little man, come in; but you must be "Seven at one blow!" said the little man with great pride. is a pleasant way to keep house," said little Two Eyes, and felt quite "Little Two Eyes," said the wise woman, "I will give you some good Little Two Eyes went home quickly, and said to her sister, "Dear "Come here, little one, and don''t be afraid," said the man.


id: 19994
title: The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter
author: Aesop
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  "Please, Mr. Wolf," he said trembling, "I know you are going to good fortune, an old Mouse arose and said: The Lion agreed and the Fox returned to the Ass. The Lion looked back, but as the Wolf was too far away to be The second time the Fox saw the Lion he stopped behind a tree to An Ass was feeding in a pasture near a wood when he saw a Wolf "My son," said the Mother Mouse, "that gentle creature you saw There was once a Wolf who got very little to eat because the Dogs For a long time he kept away from the other Foxes, for he knew "Your majesty," said the Fox, "you are too good. "You can never be too sure," said the Kid, when he saw the Wolf A long time ago, the Lion, the Fox, the Jackal, and the Wolf


id: 19813
title: Ade''s Fables
author: Ade, George
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  and then went home with his Time-Card bearing the official O. Father came in and took one look and said: "Not for Mine! When Bernice saw him turn the Corner and approach the House, he looked Kenneth would sit right up close to old Cash-in-Hand, who would egg him next the Britons and getting a few Zephyrs direct from the Ice-Box. Each day they would purchase a News-paper about the size of a Bed-Spread Mr. Pallzey went away not knowing that he was a Marked Man. On Monday he told the Stenographer how he stung the Ball the first time way down to the Dimple and plunk it right in the Eye. Then all of the new Implements laid out at Home and Wife sitting back, This time they took a House in New York and went after Grand Opera as


id: 19892
title: The Silver Crown: Another Book of Fables
author: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
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  "You shall surely wear a crown," said the Angel, "and a kingdom is "Welcome!" said the Angel, "you come in good time. "I came as fast as I could," said the child, "but many things hindered "Oh, dear, foolish child," said the Angel. One day Love went to and fro in his house, looked from door and window, Said the eldest child to the Angel who was their guardian; "Dear, there robes and sighed: "The little Prince is long in coming!" they said. "My dear child," said the Angel-who-attends-to-things, "why are you "SIT DOWN!" said the Angel; and he took the child by her shoulders and "Look!" said the child. "Look!" said the child. "You are a very clever angel to know that!" said the child. "You are a rather foolish child," said the Angel, "or you would have "Oh yes!" said the Angel: "this is the way _I_ was made."


id: 20718
title: The Damsel and the Sage: A Woman''s Whimsies
author: Glyn, Elinor
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  And the Damsel said to the Sage: "And tell me, Sage, what became of the ear?" asked the Damsel. "No one," said the Sage; "the first man went about with only one ear; "I want to know," said the Damsel, "why a woman who has Diamonds and "It means, first of all," said the Sage, "that the woman is a fool, as desirable bird in the world; and when the man realizes he has lost it "Please open the door, Sage," entreated the Damsel, "and I will tell you you bite my hand!'' Now tell me, Sage, which was right--the man or the The Sage was fairly gracious, and to while away the time the Damsel "Thank you, Damsel," said the Sage, gently for him; "but the Fisherman "That would be for another day," said the Damsel; "and--for another Tell me, Sage, why did this action cure the Dove of its great love


id: 21189
title: Aesop, in Rhyme: Old Friends in a New Dress
author: Park, Marmaduke
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  "The _beast_!" said the rustic, who thought he should die on "But pray," said the lion, "who sculptured that stone?" "I certainly think," said a fox to a crane, "You make a poor dinner, I fear," said the bird; "Why, I think," said the fox, "''twould be very absurd need you," said the man, "be told?-"Yes," said the man, "full well I know it, "Nay, do not say _we_," said his friend, "for you know "Nay, do not say _we_," said his friend, "for you know "Come tortoise, friend tortoise, walk on," said the hare, "Oh dear," said the beast, thinking death was to follow, "I shall not," said this mouse, "waste the time of the house, "Good sir!" said his friends, "why your donkey is come!" If _that''s_ all thought the crow, "I will soon let you know Said he, "My friends, pray let me die


id: 21446
title: Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse
author: nan
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  In the extreme end of a village a Fox one day went to have a peep friend Fox," said he, "you quaff it off there at a great rate: I we have leisure, you know; for, in time of danger, we shall have One hot, sultry day, a Wolf and a Lamb happened to come just at what the Bear had said to him; "For," says he, "I took notice His head old Time had now long years heaped many on; little Fawns, coming up to her, said, "Mother, what is the reason The Ass, observing how great a favourite a little Dog was with know, I am tied up in the day-time, because I am a little fierce, yonder, a little way off." "Oh, then," says the Fox, "your humble never to come near him at a time when he lay so dangerously ill,


id: 21943
title: Peter Schlemihl
author: Chamisso, Adelbert von
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  expressed ere the man in the grey coat had put his hand into his pocket, lovely Fanny carelessly addressed the grey man, whom, as far as I know, Bendel described the man in the grey coat, feature by feature, word for He came--I ordered away my servants--locked the door--sat myself "No shadow!" echoed the good young man in an agony, while bright tears Rascal continued to be my head-servant, and Bendel my friend and Mina''s parents were good, worthy old people, loving their only child most The good old man started back, as it were, while the words escaped from "No, Sir Count, that is in good hands; that you may retain." I looked on I looked round, and immediately discovered the shadow of the invisible the man in the grey coat was sitting close to me, looking on A wealthy man ought to have a shadow in the world; and so long as I


id: 22539
title: Rock A Bye Library: A Book of Fables Amusement for Good Little Children
author: Unknown
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  A Fox, one day, saw a Cock on the roof of a barn. Master Cock," said he; "I have always heard you are such a clever "Let me come with you," said he. At last he began to cry; but the Giant said, "My ask my neighbors to mow that field to-morrow.''" The Partridge said will mow the field myself.''"--"Then," said the Partridge, "we must kill me."--"No, no," said the Dog; "I have got you now, but next year The next day he said to his sons, "Well, what have you done with your One day the Lion and Tiger fell out. running away from its mother''s side, said, "I will make them friends A Dog had been taught to carry his Master''s dinner in a basket, every "We must be very clever fellows," said a young Pig. Good Little Pig''s Library. GOOD LITTLE PIG''S PICTURE ALPHABET.


id: 13815
title: The Talking Beasts: A Book of Fable Wisdom
author: nan
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  After a good many beasts had lost their lives in this way a Fox came "How do you feel to-day, friend Lion?" he asked, taking care to stand A Lion who was the king of a great forest once said to his subjects: "I a moment, good friend," said the Worm; "and you shall hear of something Presently the old man said: "Where has that bird got to? and to make my will." Then the Mouse-deer said: "If it came to Friend Now when Friend Tiger heard these words of the Mouse-deer, he said to A Cat arose in her house, went to a Hen and said to her: "Let us make The Cat said, "Yes," and went away, and after having been at home for a The Cat replied, "If thou wilt not have a friend, I shall let thee go The Lion attended to what the Wild Dog said, and went softly to where


id: 20510
title: Ade''s Fables
author: Ade, George
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  and then went home with his Time-Card bearing the official O.K. He swam among the floating Hooks and side-stepped the Maternal Traps, One day Bernice was a Little Girl, and the next she was head Flossie Father came in and took one look and said: "Not for Mine! Father came in and took one look and said: "Not for Mine! [Illustration: Father came in and took one look and said: "Not for When Bernice saw him turn the Corner and approach the House, he looked Kenneth would sit right up close to old Cash-in-Hand, who would egg Every time the Work came back to him with a brief printed Suggestion way down to the Dimple and plunk it right in the Eye. Then all of the new Implements laid out at Home and Wife sitting back, This time they took a House in New York and went after Grand Opera as


id: 23866
author: Anonymous
title:
  The House That Jack Built, a Game of Forfeits To Which is Added, the Entertaining Fable of "The Magpie"


id: 2329
title: Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
author: Cooper, James Fenimore
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  for mere pocket-handkerchiefs to throw away their time, and permit "I know it all, mademoiselle, and the dear old lady shall not suffer; Adrienne then thought, Desiree appeared in the course of the morning, money is wanting to pay for some little articles that will soon come." "Good morning, Miss Halfacre," said Mr. Bobbinet, bowing and smiling; "This handkerchief cost ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, Clara," said Eudosia, "You would not have a young lady use her pocket-handkerchief like a daughter a hundred-dollar pocket-handkerchief, Tom; one might do well The poor girl fancied her pocket-handkerchief was the common "That is a very beautiful handkerchief, Mademoiselle Hennequin," said pocket-handkerchief to excite tears from a mind and a heart like yours?" manner in which "Love''s Young Dream" appears to a pocket-handkerchief. "Yes, dear girl, she IS happy,"--poor Julia was any thing but THAT, Adrienne loves Betts more than any thing else.


id: 240
title: Stories from the Old Attic
author: Harris, Robert A. (Robert Alan)
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  "Hello, young man," he said, approaching. from the gossips to the wise man, said that the old way was right, "Forsooth, I think I''ll ask her for a date," said Sir Wishful, one Sir Percival said, "Kind Arissa, I wasn''t kidding the other day. A wise old philosopher was walking through the park with a young man barrow and looked for all the world like gardeners, the young man "See here, young man," said the beard, ignoring his colleague, what I was looking for!" the old man said very joyfully. biscuit." "Just what I was looking for," the old man said, now more "I don''t understand," said the young man. "But you look so different," the young man said, still confused. "I see," said the young man, as he embraced her and began to give "We work here," said the young man. And what does thinking look like to you?" asked the young man.


id: 6438
title: Fables for the Frivolous
author: Carryl, Guy Wetmore
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  THE RUDE RAT AND THE UNOSTENTATIOUS OYSTER The fox replied, with fine disdain, For the way the lady said it "Look alive!" the eagle said; Grow things like that upon a vine, "If pumpkins fell from trees like that," She said, "and of practical use, The town rat murmured, "The feast is ended." And said some things that were quite profane. The kind that people send, you know, "Of course," said the oak, "in my sapling days The shrewd little bulrush answered, "Friend, "My friend," said the wolf, with a winsome air, "My capers," he cried, "are the kind that are He said one brief, emphatic word, THE MORAL is: A fox is bound This fish had a way that would win him a place The fisherman said, "You will tire out your tongue. And THE MORAL, you''ll find, is although it is kind THE MORAL: When your dinner comes


id: 11930
title: More Fables
author: Ade, George
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  "I want a Chair near the Band," said Uncle Brewster. Home, and he certainly knew what was Expected of a Man who wanted to into the Box and carried it Home, and said to his Wife, "See what I have a Good Talking-To. He said it was a Shame that such Nice People should As soon as he came Home that Evening she Accused him and said she knew They rode Home in a Cab, because he said a Car wasn''t good enough for Men wanted to hear Rag Time played by Josephine, the Life-Saver. Meetings that would keep a Man away from Home so many Nights in the Time and again she said that if a Man ever attempted to Take When the Man came Home his Wife told him. had ever come to tell him "Good Night" when he was busy at Something


id: 12793
title: Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
author: Bierce, Ambrose
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  "Ah!" said the cat, "a rat who knows he has but a few minutes to live, "Very good, sir," assented the old man; "lay your load upon my "I beg you to observe," said the lamb, "that water does not commonly "It was very good of you, sir," then said the fowl; "pray tell me to Seeing the man walking away without making any remark, the bull said: "Should your friend pass this way," said the voice, "I will show him "I don''t think of questioning your right to worry me," said the cat, "I know what is the matter," said the King: "there is a dead serpent "I think, my good friend, you have been among the theologians," said "Yes," said the man, "the weather is like yourself--raw, and long a time he did not know what it was like. times, and he never said a word against it."


id: 33888
title: Aesop Dress''d; Or, A Collection of Fables Writ in Familiar Verse
author: Mandeville, Bernard
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  A word about Dennis''s fables may help to put Mandeville''s into translating the _Fables_ of La Fontaine, Mandeville seems to have been Nearly all Mandeville''s translations are, like "The Fox and Wolf," In some respects this poem looks forward to _The Fable of the Bees_. Hands, Feet, and Belly," "Council Held by the Rats," "The Lyon in Love," For each of Mandeville''s fables except "The Carp" and "The Nightingale to let you know, that I have writ some Fables in Verse, after the Familiar Way of a Great Man in_ France, Monsieur de la Fontaine. And like a silly Dog, says Sir, Sir, says the Fox, I''ve got a Cold. Look like our Carp when come again. The Bird makes every thing look great; The King by this time thought it long Says ne''er a Word, takes good Advice, Sure, says the Wolf, whoever draws Its Eight says Love, and thought ''twas plain;


id: 39499
title: Moores Fables for the Female Sex
author: Moore, Edward
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  Fair, flutt''ring, fickle, busy thing, Know, ''tis thy beauty brings thy fate; Still of thy pow''r shall I complain, Delighted with thy tuneful art, Love from her eye like lightning came, Thy pure delights few mortals know: Till ART, like NATURE, forms the fly. For BEES of sense thy arts evade, From woman thou hast drawn thy rules; In vain the master''s forming care, And LIFE, what art thou, without LOVE?"-Shall play the wanton in thy face; The FAIR high heav''n of bliss beguiles, Like virtue, hid in ev''ry heart; Of time, and form, and care, and pain, fear, to turn thy sight, Tho'' thou art WOMAN, frail as fair, On thy returning steps shall wait.-Thy form be loath''d by ev''ry eye, Life, like all its circles, vain. Soon th'' encumb''ring world shall pass; Heav''n thy friendless steps shall guide, Heav''n shall thy return attest, "Come, with VIRTUE at thy side,


id: 41921
title: The Maker of Rainbows, and Other Fairy-tales and Fables
author: Le Gallienne, Richard
txt: ./txt/41921.txt
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summary:
  curious little figure of an old man, trundling at his side a strange But the strange old man who had made rainbows out of the little girl''s "Who and what are you?" said this old man, stepping out a little in looked in her mirror and said, "I am more beautiful." "That is a beautiful mirror you have by your side," said the old man. And the poet took the mirror from the old man and looked; and, as he "Why," said the wise old man, "do you let fall the princess''s mirror?" "What do you see in the mirror," said the old man, "that you gaze so "Yet, look again," said the old man, "into this other mirror, the mirror "It will be safe now," said the old man, half rising and looking out "Sing to me," said the old man, "to cheer my tired heart."


