United States or New Caledonia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
On Friday then, his paper was ruled, and he had only to run across the playground to borrow Firth's penknife, and then nothing should delay his letter. In that ran across the playground he was stopped. He was wanted to collect clean snow for the boys who were bent on finishing their snow-man while it would bind. He should be let off when he had brought snow enough.
And before long it was all over with the winter too! 'Bow-wow! barked the hoarse yard-dog. But the young girl sang: Woods, your bright green garments don! Willows, your woolly gloves put on! Lark and cuckoo, daily sing February has brought the spring! My heart joins in your song so sweet; Come out, dear sun, the world to greet! And no one thought of the Snow-man. The Shirt-collar
The weather is going to change; I feel it already by the pain in my left hind-leg; the weather is certainly going to change. 'I can't understand him, said the Snow-man; 'but I have an idea that he is speaking of something unpleasant. That thing that glares so, and then disappears, the sun, as he calls it, is not my friend. I know that by instinct.
A smile still hovers around my lips when I think of the frozen snow-man on whose head we put a black cap and then placed in one of the younger teacher's rooms to personate a ghost, and the difficulty we had in transporting the monster, or when I remember our pranks in the dormitory.
Billy was on his feet in an instant, shaking the snow off as a dog shakes off water. “Why, Billy, you look like a snow-man,” Maida laughed. “I feel like one,” Billy said, wiping the snow from his eyes and from under his collar. “But don’t be discouraged, my hearties, up with it again. I’ll be more careful the next time.”
'They are our masters, answered the yard-dog. 'Really people who have only been in the world one day know very little. That's the conclusion I have come to. Now I have age and wisdom; I know everyone in the house, and I can remember a time when I was not lying here in a cold kennel. Bow-wow! 'The cold is splendid, said the Snow-man. 'Tell me some more.
On Friday then, his paper was ruled, and he had only to run across the playground to borrow Firth's penknife, and then nothing should delay his letter. In that run across the playground he was stopped. He was wanted to collect clean snow for the boys who were bent on finishing their snow-man while it would bind. He should be let off when he had brought snow enough.
We welcomed them, for winter brought coasting parties down the mountains, skating, snow-balling, the clumsy snow-man, and that most active of mortals, the dancing-master, who not only instructed us in the art of Terpsichore, but also gave us rules of decorum which were an abomination to Uncle Froebel.
"If there is, you children can do something for me that I should like very much," said grandmamma. "Shall I tell you what it is?" "Yes." "You can make a snow-man in that field. I am sure Mr Grey will give you leave." "What good will that do you?" asked Matilda. "I can sit here and watch you; and I shall like that exceedingly.
The Snow-man felt wonderfully happy, and a feeling came over him which he could not express; but all those who are not snow-men know about it. 'Why did you leave her? asked the Snow-man. He had a feeling that such a being must be a lady. 'How could you leave such a place? 'I had to! said the yard-dog. 'They turned me out of doors, and chained me up here.
Word Of The Day