Harry and Lucy: To which are Added The Little Dog Trusty, The Cherry Orchard, and The Orange Man

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G. Routledge and Sons, 1856 - 192 Seiten
 

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Seite 16 - I BELIEVE you know, that the kind of milk which I give you very often for your breakfast and supper, is taken out of the udders of cows. Did you never see the maids with milkpails going...
Seite 128 - Trusty, lying by the fireside. Trusty was a pretty, playful little dog, and the children were very fond of him. " Come," said Robert to Frank, " there is Trusty lying beside the fire, asleep ; let us go and waken him, and he will play with us.
Seite 131 - Get me a switch out of the garden, Robert; Trusty must be beat for this." Robert ran for the switch, and in the garden he met his brother. He stopped him, and told him in a great hurry, all...
Seite 130 - I shall not be angry with you, child. You will only lose the milk at supper; and as for the basin, I would rather have you break all the basins I have than tell me one lie. So don't tell me a lie. I ask you, Robert, did you break the basin ? " " No, mamma, I did not," said Robert ; and he coloured as red as fire. " Then where is Frank ? Did he do it ? "
Seite 129 - The longer he stayed, the more unwilling he was to go to* tell his mother that he had thrown the milk down; and at last he pulled his hand away from his brother, and cried, "I won't go at all : Frank, can't you go by yourself?
Seite 18 - ... they were so high from the ground, that she could not reach them: Lucy did not like to go away, without taking some honey-suckles to her mother ; so she walked slowly by the side of the hedge, till she came to a place where there was a large stone, upon which she climbed, and gathered as many honey-suckles as she liked. Whilst she was getting down, she held the flowers fast, for fear she should drop them into the ditch, and she felt something prick her finger very sharply; she looked, and she...
Seite 127 - ... body, who knew him, believed him : but nobody, who knew his brother Robert, believed a word which he said, because he used to tell lies. Whenever he did any thing wrong, he never ran to his father and mother to tell them of it; but when they asked him about it, he denied it, and said he had not done the things which he had done.
Seite 131 - No, mother, he did not," said Robert : for he was in hopes that when Frank came in, he should persuade him to say that he did not do it.
Seite 130 - I were both to say that we did not throw down the basin, she would believe us, and we should have milk for supper. I am very sorry Frank would go to tell her about it.
Seite 129 - Stay a little longer ; for I dare not go yet — I am afraid." Little boys, I advise you never be afraid to tell the truth ; never say, " Stay a minute" and " Stay a little longer" but run directly and tell of what you have done, that is wrong. The longer you stay, the more afraid you will grow; till at last, perhaps, you will not dare to tell the truth at all. Hear what happened to Robert — The longer he...

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