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Excerpt from Heads and Tails: Studies and Stories of Pets It has been my happiness to visit often at this cottage, and to see just how this great poet lives, - not with his head in the clouds above us all, but in sympathy with the humblest, most every-day sort of people, if they be but only good and true. He is Simple in all his ways, and perfectly comprehensible in his talk, I assure you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundr...

Excerpt from Records of Five YearsNN ie! Sophie! Come up quick, and see baby in her bath-tub I cries a charming little maid en, running down the wide stairway of an Old country house, and half-way up the long hall, all in a ¿utter ing cloud Of pink lawn, her soft dimpled cheeks tinged with the same lovely morning hue. In an instant there is a stir and a gush of light laughter in the drawing-room, and presently, with a movement a little more ma...

Excerpt from New Life in New Lands: Notes of TravelStill, as a happy record of a period of rare enjoy ment, of experiences fresh and bright and sweet to me, as an absolutely truthful picture of life as I saw it in the great Western Territories and the grand Pacific State, I commend it to the dear and generous friends here and yonder for whom I kept the record, whose kindness gave to the picture its best brightness and beauty. I commend it to t...

Excerpt from Recollections of My Childhood, and Other Stories My Friends: - Many times, while writing this little volume of stories, I have seemed to feel your eyes upon me, in a look so serious, so searching, that my heart almost quailed under it. I have felt, more deeply than I can tell, that I was to be judged not alone by literary umpires, by professional critics, but by the unbiased reason, the quick conscience, the jealous watchfulness...

Excerpt from Bonnie Scotland, Vol. 1 As this witty poem, like most of the writings of Robert Burns, is in the Scottish dialect, which my young readers would hardly understand, I will relate in plain prose the story, which made a great laugh through all the county of Ayr shire, some seventy - five years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com Thi...

Excerpt from Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children To my little friends, Mary and Alice Seelye, I wish to inscribe this volume, in remembrance of a pleasant summer spent under their father's roof - the Water Cure, at Cleveland, where a part of these sketches were written, - in remembrance of their happy, cordial faces, and of the "loving kindness" of their parents - of much genial companionship and generous sympathy. In rem...

Excerpt from History of My Pets The next morning, I asked my mother for a name for pussy. She laughed and gave me Keturah, saying that it was a good Sunday name, but that I might call her Kitty, for short. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technol...

Excerpt from Merrie England: Travels, Descriptions, Tales, and Historical Sketches More than half a century ago Grace Greenwood made What seemed to her a perilous journey across the Atlantic. She wrote about her travels for the Little Pz'égrz'm, a magazine for children, and soon after some of the stories were published in book form under the title of Merrie England. It was to this book that many a child of those days owed his first introducti...

Excerpt from Greenwood Leaves: A Collection of Sketches and Letters In hanging underneath your name, half playfully, half affectionately, this rude wreath of woven leaves, I am conscious of having two distinct ends in view. In the first place, I mean this Dedication to be a sort of an indicator of the tone and character of my volume. As earnestly as I desire to speak my uninspired, unpolished, but most sincere words to the many, I would not b...

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It seems to me that the life of Queen Victoria cannot well be told without a prefacing sketch of her cousin, the Princess Charlotte, who, had she lived, would have been her Queen, and who was in many respects her prototype. It is certain, I think, that Charlotte Augusta of Wales, that lovely miracle-flower of a loveless marriage, blooming into a noble and gracious womanhood, amid the petty strifes and disgraceful intrigues of a corrupt Court, ...

It seems to me that the life of Queen Victoria cannot well be told without a prefacing sketch of her cousin, the Princess Charlotte, who, had she lived, would have been her Queen, and who was in many respects her prototype. It is certain, I think, that Charlotte Augusta of Wales, that lovely miracle-flower of a loveless marriage, blooming into a noble and gracious womanhood, amid the petty strifes and disgraceful intrigues of a corrupt Court, ...

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