Stories about:- (by lady M.A. Barker). |
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... asked for my monkey to be brought to me , but saw at once that something was wrong , for every one to whom I applied put me off with a different excuse ; so after dinner , in the cool of the evening , when our dear old captain came to ...
... asked for my monkey to be brought to me , but saw at once that something was wrong , for every one to whom I applied put me off with a different excuse ; so after dinner , in the cool of the evening , when our dear old captain came to ...
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... asked me if I was alive . We have often laughed at that question since , but you must remember that our wits were rather scattered after such a fall . I assured her I was very much alive and anxious to get up , if she would only move ...
... asked me if I was alive . We have often laughed at that question since , but you must remember that our wits were rather scattered after such a fall . I assured her I was very much alive and anxious to get up , if she would only move ...
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... smart embroidered parasol belonging to Aunt Nelly lying near me . I must confess to being very naughty indeed about this parasol , and I will tell you how . Mamma asked me if the carriage or horses were to be II ] 37 JAMAICA .
... smart embroidered parasol belonging to Aunt Nelly lying near me . I must confess to being very naughty indeed about this parasol , and I will tell you how . Mamma asked me if the carriage or horses were to be II ] 37 JAMAICA .
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lady Mary Anne Broome. asked me if the carriage or horses were to be seen , but though I fancied there was something dark in the bed of the river below us , it was impossible to tell what it might be , and , selfish , naughty little girl ...
lady Mary Anne Broome. asked me if the carriage or horses were to be seen , but though I fancied there was something dark in the bed of the river below us , it was impossible to tell what it might be , and , selfish , naughty little girl ...
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... asking everybody if they did not think she was growing bigger ; but still she remained a little fat dot of a thing , whilst Nurse declared that my frocks had to be let down an inch every week . I was very sorry that Jessie remained so ...
... asking everybody if they did not think she was growing bigger ; but still she remained a little fat dot of a thing , whilst Nurse declared that my frocks had to be let down an inch every week . I was very sorry that Jessie remained so ...
Términos y frases comunes
afterwards amuse ayah baby beautiful bheestie birds bright buckra cage called camels camp Cecil cheetah chupattie clever creature dear delighted door dreadful dressed Edinburgh Castle elephant eyes face fastened father feet felt Ferrars flax gallop gave grass hair hand head heard horses hour Hutchinson J. E. ROGERS Jack Jack's back Jamaica Jessie Jessie's Joey jumped kelasses kitten knew lady looked lovely Lucknow mahout Mamma master monkey morning mother naughty Nawab negro never night nurse once paddock palkee Papa parrots Pompey pony poor little pretty quiet Rakaia remember ride round saddle seemed servants shelter side sight Skye terrier snake soon sort stood story syce tail tell tent thing thought Tip's Toddy told took tree turkeys turned verandah walk watch whilst young Zealand
Pasajes populares
Página 200 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence : Yet I know by...
Página 65 - There is a very small snake, only two feet long, called the ' whip snake,' from its resemblance to the lash of a...
Página 157 - I will lift up mine eyes to the hills, From whence cometh my help; My help cometh from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.
Página 27 - But hark ! there is Nurse calling Effie ! It is bedtime, so run away ; And I must go back, or the others Will be wondering why I stay. XVIII. " So good night to my darling Effie ; Keep happy, sweetheart, and grow wise : — There's one kiss for her golden tresses, And two for her sleepy eyes.
Página 152 - ... enormous bounds carried him close to the buck, who stood for an instant as if paralysed, and then turned to fly; but it was too late ; a third spring with a howl of fury brought the cheetah on his back, with his teeth in the graceful neck which a moment before had held the antlered head up so proudly. I saw the buck drop on his knees, and the keeper rush up to secure the cheetah again before he should begin to tear the venison, and then I could see no more ; the gentlemen galloped off to the...
Página 100 - ... gorge and escape us for that night. Jack felt bound in honour to prevent this ; so he laid himself well out to his work, and with the most wonderful instinct availed himself of every inch of ground by which he could gain the entrance to the gorge before the mob. He not only succeeded in heading them, but actually turned them into the stock-yard close by ; and •when I recovered my presence of mind, I found myself still on Jack's back, who was standing across the open place where the slip-rail...
Página 139 - I looked at the horses,—they were all as white as if they had been powdered with flour; so were their syces; and the ' bheesties,' or watercarriers, were very busy filling the large goat-skins which serve them as water-jugs, to give every live thing which had been outside a good drink, and to wash the dust out of their eyes and ears. The camels had buried their noses in the sand, and did not appear to have suffered at all. I went that afternoon to the elephants...