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Excerpt from The Christmas AngelAsiftoberid sheshuther mouth tight, evenas she shut Jack back into his box.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections pres...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Heart of New EnglandThe younger sons came sailing With hearts of steel and fire.From leafy lane and valley, Fair glebe and ancient wood, The counties of old England Poured forth their warmest blood.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolo...

Excerpt from The Curious Book of BirdsAll were happy except one. The Woodpecker had taken no part with the other busy birds. She was a lazy, disobedient creature, and when she heard the Lord's commands she had only said.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art...

Excerpt from The Flower PrincessI have no mind to exchange hearts, save with him Who can find mine, where it is hid den among my ¿owers. Guess me my favorite ¿ower, dear Prince, and I am yours.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally re...

Excerpt from In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse TalesThings. But the various folk who first told them were so very different, the tales are so very Old, and have changed SO greatly in the telling from one generation to another, that there are almost as many ac counts of the way in which the world began as there are nations upon the earth. So it is not strange that the people of the North have a legend of the Beginning quite different from ...

Excerpt from Songs of SixpenceHE duck can swim, the duck (tho' not so well as I), But tho' he is a kind of bird, He cannot seem to ¿y.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst r...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from Fresh Posies: Rhymes to Read and Pieces to SpeakThe birds and beasts are nice warm feathers and in fur, They have no hooks and eyes and strings, No buttons and such horrid things To make life hatefuler.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tech...

Illustrations by E. Boyd Smith. A delightful retelling of some of the most loved and famous Norse tales-from the beginning of the world, and how Odin traded one of his eyes in exchange for wisdom, to the use of the god Kvasir's blood to create the "Mead of Poetry, " and the cataclysmic intrigues with the Jötun giants. Read here of the tales of Skadi, Loki and his evil children, Thor's Quest, the dwarfs and their gifts, Balder and the mistletoe...

Excerpt from The Lucky StoneOur ¿ights up the rickety tenement staircase was a little room with the door shut tight. The key was turned in the keyhole on the outside. From inside came the sound of sobbing for any one to hear. But there was no one to hear, every one was too busy indoors or out on this beautiful June day. Every one who had work to do was doing it, over the hot stove, or at the shop or fac tory. The free children were romping or ...

Excerpt from The Lucky StoneOur ¿ights up the rickety tenement staircase was a little room with the door shut tight. The key was turned in the keyhole on the outside. From inside came the sound of sobbing for any one to hear. But there was no one to hear, every one was too busy indoors or out on this beautiful June day. Every one who had work to do was doing it, over the hot stove, or at the shop or fac tory. The free children were romping or ...

Excerpt from A Pocketful of PosiesRom Bed to Dreamland is as far As up into the farthest star, So one of course is sometimes late To breakfast when it comes at eight.For though the train like lightning goes, And reaches there before one knows, It takes much longer to come back, Because the Dreams get on the track.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThi...

Excerpt from The Christmas AngelWhy, all the windows along the street are full of candles, answered Norah, rows of candles in every house, to light the Christ Child on his way when he comes through the city to-night.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tec...

Excerpt from In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse TalesHE oldest stories of every race of people tell about the Beginning of Things. But the various folk who first told them were so very different, the tales are so very, old, and have changed so greatly in the telling from one generation to another, that there are almost as many ac counts of the way in which the world began as there are nations upon the earth. So it is not strange that the p...