A Book of Children's LiteratureLillian Hollowell Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1939 - 942 pages |
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... POOR TURKEY GIRL ( Zuñi ) NCE long , long ago , in Matsaki the Salt City , there lived many rich Indians who owned large flocks of Turkeys . The poor people of the town herded them on the mesas , or on the plains around Thunder Mountain ...
... POOR TURKEY GIRL ( Zuñi ) NCE long , long ago , in Matsaki the Salt City , there lived many rich Indians who owned large flocks of Turkeys . The poor people of the town herded them on the mesas , or on the plains around Thunder Mountain ...
Page 125
... poor girl had never been allowed to join in , or even to watch , the dances , and she longed to see this one . She sighed , and said to her Turkeys for she often talked to them- " Alas ! How could a girl , so ugly and ill - clad as I am ...
... poor girl had never been allowed to join in , or even to watch , the dances , and she longed to see this one . She sighed , and said to her Turkeys for she often talked to them- " Alas ! How could a girl , so ugly and ill - clad as I am ...
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... Poor little Thumbelisa lived all the summer quite alone in the wood . She plaited a bed of grass for herself and hung it up under a big dock leaf which sheltered her from the rain . She sucked the honey from the flowers for her food ...
... Poor little Thumbelisa lived all the summer quite alone in the wood . She plaited a bed of grass for herself and hung it up under a big dock leaf which sheltered her from the rain . She sucked the honey from the flowers for her food ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 5 |
Reynard Wants to Taste Horseflesh | 54 |
East o the Sun and West o the Moon | 60 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Book of Children's Literature |
| Editor | Lillian Hollowell |
| Publisher | Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1939 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 942 pages |
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