Little Ferns for Fanny's Little FriendsDerby & Miller, 1854 - 298 pages Stories and sketches for children. |
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Page 153 - but it makes me think of last New Year's, when you and I lay cuddled together in our little bed, and papa came creeping up in his slippers, thinking we were asleep, and laid our presents on the table, and then kissed us both, and said, 'God bless the little darlings!' Oh! Katy — all the little girls in that shop have their papa's with them. I want MY papa," and little Susy laid her head on Katy's shoulder and sobbed as if her heart were breaking.
Page 20 - How should you like every morning to have your nose washed upy instead of down? How should you like to have a pin put through your dress into your skin, and have to bear it all day till your clothes were taken off at night? How should you like to be held so near the fire that your eyes were half scorched out of your head, while your nurse was reading a novel? How should you like to have a great fly light on your nose, and not know how to take aim at him, with your little, fat, useless fingers? How...
Page 75 - d got to play everything he wanted, or he 'd pout and say he would n't play at all. He had slices of cake, that he had hoarded up till they were as hard as his heart ; and cents, and dimes, and half dimes, that he used to handle and jingle and count over, like any little miser. All the beggars in the world could n't have coaxed one out of his pocket had they been starving to death.
Page 14 - ... let her climb up to disentangle it. I guess she never broke one of the runners of her sled some Saturday afternoon, when it was " prime " coasting. I guess she never had to give her biggest marbles to a great lubberly boy, because he would thrash her if she did n't.
Page 68 - They always give him the best chair in the office, for he is an amazing help to them. In fact, it is Aunt Fanny's opinion, that their newspapers would die a natural death without him. To be sure, he sometimes gets them into shocking scrapes with his big fibs ; but they know how to twist and turn out of it. Yes, Mr. " They Say " is a cowardly liar ! He could n't look an honest man straight in the eye, any more than he could face a cannon ball. He would turn as pale as a snow-wreath, and melt into...
Page 42 - I never pillowed his little head, or bore his little form, or smoothed his silky locks, or laved his dimpled limbs, or fed his cherry lips with dainty bits, or kissed his rosy cheek as he lay sleeping. I did not see his eye grow dim; or his little hand droop powerless; or the dew of agony gather on his pale forehead; I stood not with clasped hands and suspended breath, and watched the look that comes but once, flit over his cherub face. And yet, "little Benny...
Page 21 - ... across the room, instead of close by ? How should you like to tire yourself out crawling way across the carpet, to pick up a pretty button or pin, and have it snatched away, as soon as you begin to enjoy it? I tell you it is enough to ruin any baby's temper. How should you like to have your mamma stay at a party till you were as hungry as a little cub, and be left to the mercy of a nurse, who trotted you up and down till every bone in your body ached ? How should you like, when your mamma dressed...
Page 76 - I knew better. I knew that his selfishness would grow as fast as he did; and that when he came to be a man, he would be unfeeling to the poor, and make hard bargains with them, and wring the last penny out of their poor, threadbare pockets.
Page 83 - So you see, everybody learned to love her when they found out what a beautiful soul she had; and while Rosalie was pining and fretting herself sick because her beauty was fading, and her admirers were dropping off one by one, to flatter prettier faces, Hetty went quietly on her way, winning hearts and — keeping them, too.