Little Lou's sayings and doings, by the author of 'Little Susy's six birthdays'.

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Nisbet & Company, 1869
 

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Page 188 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 153 - The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born.
Page 189 - His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Page 290 - ... 1. WALKS FROM EDEN: The Scripture Story from the Creation to the Death of Abraham. 2. THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL: The Scripture Story from the Birth of Isaac to the Death of Jacob. 3. THE STAR OUT OF JACOB: The Scripture Story Illustrating the Earlier Portion of the Gospel Narrative. THE GOLDEN LADDER SERIES.
Page 290 - SHIFTING WINDS : A Tough Yarn. THE LIGHTHOUSE ; or, The Story of a Great Fight Between Man and the Sea. THE LIFEBOAT : A Tale of our Coast Heroes. GASCOYNE, THE SANDALWOOD TRADER: A Tale of the Pacific.
Page 279 - Tis he who always tears our books, Who leaves the door ajar, He pulls the buttons from our shirts, And scatters pins afar; That squeaking door will always squeak For, prithee, don't you see, We leave the oiling to be done By Mr.
Page 279 - In everybody's house! There's no one ever sees his face, And yet we all agree That every plate we break was cracked By Mr Nobody.
Page 279 - By none of us are made; We never leave the blinds unclosed, To let the curtains fade. The ink we never spill, the boots That lying round you see, Are not our boots; they all belong To Mr.
Page 165 - ... soft laugh, which seemed to invite her to enjoy his cleverness and be amused at the humour of the explanation. Mrs. Grey did not smile. For a moment her face grew puckered and perplexed. In her eyes shone the light of a mental conflict between anger and tears. The conflict ended in a few moments. She threw herself into a chair and covered her face with her hands. She neither stormed nor wept. He hastened to her with compunctious solicitude He knelt on one knee by her side, and put his powerful...
Page 42 - We want to play with your boys for an hour or so, and to see how ' the old woman who lived in a shoe, and had so many children she did not know what to do,

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