| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 Seiten
...WHISTLE. \VTien I was a child, at seven years old, my fricnds, on a holiday, filled my little pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop, where they...; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one.... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 Seiten
...WHISTLE. When I was a child, at seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my little pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop, where they...children ; and, being charmed with the sound of a whiMe, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money fbr... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 Seiten
...distinction of things, brings home honey and wax." Swift. THE WHISTLE. WHEN I was a child, at seven years old, my friends on a holiday filled my pockets with...children; and being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 Seiten
...12th, I78i THE WHISTLR. A True Story — Written to his Nephew. WHEN I was a child, at seven years oki, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with coppers....children; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one.... | |
| James Parton - 1864 - 668 Seiten
...all the world. " When I was a child of seven years old," he wrote, sixty-six years after the event, " my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with coppers....for children ; and being charmed with the sound of a whittie, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, 1 voluntarily offered and gave all my money... | |
| Alfred Baskerville - 1865 - 406 Seiten
...When I was a child, at seven years old, my friends, on a holyday, filled my pocket with coppers7). I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children; and being charmed with the sound of a 1) @ie ju biefem SDienjh cmeevMblt. 2) »erantaffen. 3) nttt bev. 4) bte Sijl. 5) auSjugeben. 6) The... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 Seiten
...telling one of myself When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they...; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for... | |
| Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 Seiten
...sold Yarico to a Barbadian merchant. Steele. THE WHISTLE. When I was a child of seven years of age, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with coppers. I went directly to a shop were they sold toys for children; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle that I saw on the... | |
| James Parton - 1868 - 694 Seiten
...have been concerned, and this shall be given in his own words : — "When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with...children ; and being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for... | |
| Walter Keating Kelly - 1869 - 252 Seiten
...following extract from a paper by its author, Benjamin Franklin: — "When I was a child of seven years old my friends on a holiday filled my pockets with...children, and being charmed with the sound of a whistle that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I volun1 Qui nescit canere semper canere laborat.... | |
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