The Whole Year RoundHoughton Mifflin Company, 1915 - 503 strani |
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Agassiz animals autumn berries birds Bobolink Boston boys brood bumblebee butterflies buzzard catfish CHAPTER Chickadee chipmunks close cold coming coyote creature crow dark deep dogs doors edge eggs eyes fall fear feathers feet fields fish flock flowers frogs gone grass gray head hear herd hole hollow horse hounds hunting knew liquid song live look meadow miles morning mother mouse muskrats nest never night Pelican Point perhaps persimmons pig-pen pond possum rain red squirrel RED-EYED VIREO ridge road rock roost round seemed shadbush Shag Rock side sight sleep snow song sound spring squirrel stop strange stump summer swamp things toad toadfish track trail tree turned turtle eggs wait wall warm watch whip-poor-will wild wild things wind wings winter witch-hazel wonder wood mouse woods young
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Stran 25 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Stran 52 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
Stran 132 - ... wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen. And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home...
Stran 99 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread...
Stran 73 - THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW he north wind doth blow, And we shall have snow, And what will poor Robin do then, Poor thing? He'll sit in a barn, And keep himself warm, And hide his head under his wing, Poor thing.
Stran 100 - O call it not fat ! but an indefinable sweetness growing up to it — the tender blossoming of fat, fat cropped in the bud, taken in the shoot, in the first innocence, the cream and quintessence of the child-pig's yet pure food — the lean, no lean, but a kind of animal...
Stran 107 - Leaving my horse unhitched, as if he, too, understood, I slipped eagerly into my covert for a look at the pond. As I did so, a large pickerel ploughed a furrow out through the spatter-docks, and in his wake rose the head of an enormous turtle. Swinging slowly around, the creature headed straight for the shore, and without a pause, scrambled out on the sand.
Stran 108 - She was about the size of a big scoop-shovel ; but that was not what excited me, so much as her manner, and the gait at which she moved ; for there was method in it and fixed purpose. On she came, shuffling over the sand toward the higher open fields, with a hurried, determined see-saw that was taking her somewhere in particular, and that was bound to get her there on time. " I held my breath. Had she been a dinosaurian making Mesozoic footprints, I could not have been more fearful. For footprints...
Stran 113 - With a pull that lifted the horse from his feet, I swung him into the field and sent him straight as an arrow for the track. That train should carry me and my eggs to Boston! ' The engineer pulled the rope. He saw me standing up in the rig, saw my hat blow off; saw me wave my arms, saw the tin pail swing in my teeth, and he jerked out a succession of sharp halts!
Stran 110 - I pulled my coat-sleeves as far over my fists as I could get them, and with the tin pail of sand swinging from between my teeth to avoid noise, I stumped fiercely, but silently, on after the turtle. ' She was laying her course, I thought, straight down the length of this dreadful pasture, when, not far from the fence, she suddenly hove to, warped herself short about, and came back, barely clearing me, at a clip that was thrilling. I warped about, too, and in her wake bore down across the corner of...