Young folks' recitations; designed for young people of fifeteen years
Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker
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(RareBooksClub.com, May 10, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... all ran, And a most thorough search for the glasses began. And dear little Nell in her generous way Said, " I'll look for them, Grandpa, without any pay." John B. Gough. GRANDPAPA'S SPECTACLES. All through the big Bible she searched with care, It lies on the table by Granpapa's chair. They feel in his pockets, they peep in his hat, They pull out the sofa and shake out the mat. Then down on the floor, like good-natured betis, Go Harry and Ned under tables and chairs, Till quite out of breath, Ned is heard to declare, He believed that those glasses are not anywhere. But Nelly, who, leaning on Grandpapa's knee, Was thinking most earnestly, " where can they be V Looked suddenly up in the kind, faded eyes, And her own shining brown ones grew big with surprise. She clapped with her hands, all her dimples came out, She turned to the boys with a bright, roguish shout, "You may leave off your looking, both Harry and Nedยป For there are the glasses on Grandpapa's head." SIN. FSE sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world; use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you; and though it kill your bodies, it shall not be able to kill your souls; and though it bring you to the grave, as it did your Head, it shall pot be.able to keep you there. Baxter. FEBRUARY TWENTY-SECOND. IN seventeen hundred thirty-two, This very month and day, Winking and blinking at the light, A little baby lay. No doubt they thought the little man A goodly child enough; But time has proved that he was made Of most uncommon stuff. The little babe became a man That everybody knew Would finish well what he began, And prove both firm and true. Bo when the Revolution came, ...