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How to Tell Stories to Children

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. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...n't any red ones at all, any yellow ones, or any pink ones, — just only white roses. And one morning, very early, a little white 1 From " Mother-Song and Child-Song," Charlotte Brewster Jordan. s Told me by Miss Elizabeth MoCracken. rosebud woke up, and saw the sun looking at her. He stared so hard that the little white rosebud did not know what to do; so she looked up at him and said, "Why are you looking at me so hard?" "Because you are so pretty!" said the big round sun. And the little white rosebud blushed! She blushed pink. And all her children after her were little pink roses! RAGGYLUG1 Once there was a little furry rabbit, who lived with his mother deep down in a nest under the long grass. His name was Raggylug, and his mother's name was Molly Cottontail. Every morning, when Molly Cottontail went out to hunt for food, she said to Raggylug, "Now Raggylug, lie still, and make no noise. No matter what you hear, no matter what you see, don't you move. Remember you are only a baby rabbit, and lie low." And Raggylug always said he would. One day, after his mother had gone, he was lying very still in the nest, looking up through the feathery grass. By just cocking his eye, 1 Adapted from Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton's "Wild Animals I have known." so, he could see what was going on up in the world. Once a big blue-jay perched on a twig above him/and scolded some one very loudly; be kept saying," Thief! thief!" But Raggylug never moved his nose, nor his paws; he lay still. Once a lady-bug took a walk down a blade of grass, over his head; she was so top-heavy that pretty soon she tumbled off and fell to the bottom, and had to begin all over again. But Raggylug never moved his nose nor his paws; he lay still. The sun was warm, and it was very still....

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 112
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781150559747
  • Genres
  • parenting
  • Release date
  • 2012