Books with author Harry Thurston Peck

Illustrations The animals all looked interested .. .F rontispiece (P age 126) facing page The wolf was not much of a talker, and Mabel could not think of anything to say, so they kept very still 10 it felt as though she were on a big rocking chair 24 They made their way silently up to the stabledoor 48 The goat kept on whirling around and around .90 Mabel looked up, and her heart nearly stopped beating, for out of the window came an enormous FACE 166 That sa doll, said the brownie ;and I think you NEVER SAW ONE LIKE IT BEFORE. It CAN TALK AND laugh and cry and walk 194 We must hurry home as fast as we can. Come!(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at

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"I loved this book as a child. I still have the 1916 edition with the Harry Roundtree illustrations that my aunt read it to me over and over. The Kirkus reviewer seems to have forgotten what is like to be a child when magical thinking comes to the aid of the fledgling ego in a dangerous world where one is utterly dependent on adults who (like the Kirkus reviewer) seem to have forgotten their childhood. Mabel, with her animal friends, turns the tables on adults (and boys), coming to their rescue--not by assuming adult powers, but as a little girl with the mind and sensibility of a child. The style is that of a bedside story teller. All those 'weak' words the reviewer finds so tiresome, belong to the voice of the well intentioned but condescending adult--the voice of those little Mabel shows up story after story. As a child listening to these tales I didn't identify with that voice, but with Mabel--and remember the delicious sense of irony that came precisely from the power of being 'little' ...and knowing they didn't get it." - Reviewer Jacob Russell

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Mabel is a young girl who lives in the countryside near the woods. One day, she decides to explore the land with the help of the animals who live amongst the trees, fields and ponds.As Mabel's adventures in the forest and beyond, she learns a lot about the kinds of creatures who live there. The strong and speedy horse, the agile wolf, and the brave and faithful dog - the sorts of animals Mabel befriends are encountered or depended on by people through good and bad times. With her friends, Mabel protects her family against wrongdoers. Her old grandma, a kind and goodly soul, is vulnerable - it's up to Mabel and her companions to keep their house and home safe.This edition of Mabel's adventures includes nine drawings by Harry Rountree, so that young readers can understand and follow what happens.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...stopped. She did not talk about it any more; but all that day she had a very curious look on her face. The next morning she took a broom and went over the whole house hunting for spiders. She even went into the garret, and there she found the four brown spiders sitting on the window-sill. When they saw her coming, they slid out of the window and down the side of the house. They knew that they could never come back again. They went to the barn and tried to make a home for themselves there; but the barn-spiders, who were big and fierce, drove them out. So after that they had to live in the orchard, where they were often rained on, and got very little to eat. They could not pay the King Spider the flies they had promised him; so that one day when he saw them he caught them in his big claws and ate them all up. VIII. THE ANIMAL PARTY MABEL," said Grandma one morning, "do you know what tomorrow will be?" " No," said Mabel, who did not understand the question. " What will it be? " " Why," said Grandma, " your birthday." " No!" said Mabel. " How old shall I be to-morrow, Grandma? " " What? Don't you remember? Why, to-morrow you 'll be six years old." " Really? " cried Mabel. " Dear me! Why, Grandma, I thought that I should feel so different when I grew up; but I don't. I feel just the same as I did when I was only a little girl." Grandma smiled. "That isn't strange, Mabel," she said. " Do you know, I am more than sixty years old, and I think I feel just the same as when / was only a little girl. But we must do something for your birthday, because you have been so good and thoughtful all the year. What would you like best? " " Oh, let me see. Why, I should like best of all to have a party. You know I Ve never had a party; and now that I 'm real...

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Long experience has convinced the author that, as a rule, classical students, even those who are pursuing the most advanced courses, are very imperfectly informed as to the history of the subjects upon which they are engaged. They may be thoroughly trained in various ramifications of Classical Philology, while knowing little or nothing of Classical Philology as a whole. It seems an anomalous thing that any university student should proceed to his doctorate in Greek and Latin without ever having had a conspectus of the entire field of which he is familiar with a part; that, for example, he should be able to give no intelligent account of the ilexandrian School; that the significance of the Renaissance to a classicist should not be clear to him; thatS caliger, Lipsius, Casaubon, Bentley, Corssen, and Lachmann should be little more than names; and that he should have learned nothing genetically about literary criticism, text criticism, and scientific linguistics. Yet such is very often the case; and though it is to be regretted, it is not a reasonable cause for censure.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at

For every nature writer there seems to be one special place that tutors him or her in the ways of nature and the relationships of humans to the natural world, including the spiritual dimension. For Thoreau, it was a pond; for Henry Beaton, a barrier beach; for Annie Dillard, a creek. For Harry Thurston, it is the salt marsh, that part of the planet where land meets sea.Based upon childhood memory and his naturalist’s journals, "A Place Between the Tides" is the story of Thurston’s return to the beloved environment of his boyhood when he moves to the Old Marsh, a 1.5-hectare marsh on the banks of the Tidnish River in Nova Scotia. Elegantly moving back and forth in time, from the present year through the past decade and all the way back to childhood, the book describes the seasons in the life of the marsh as filtered through two decades of Thurston’s living there. Blending acute analysis and a poet’s lyricism, Thurston explores and examines one of the most productive and biologically diverse habitats on Earth, a habitat that has been degraded relentlessly since European settlement, making the few standing marshes precious because they are so vulnerable and vital.

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