The story of Arthur Hunter and his first shilling, with other tales1861 |
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Strona 25 - To view the structure of that little work A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without ; No tool had he that wrought ; no knife to cut ; No nail to fix ; no bodkin to insert ; No glue to join ; his little beak was all ; And yet, how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Strona 28 - a swallow which had unhappily — and I cannot imagine in what manner — slipped its foot into a slip-knot of packthread, the other end of which. was attached to a spout of the College of the Four Nations. Its strength was exhausted, — it hung at the end of the thread, uttered cries, and sometimes raised itself as if making an effort to fly away.
Strona 164 - ... sent to Gibraltar, and there it fell to his lot one day to relieve two ladies from the attack of a ferocious dog. One was the wife, and the other the daughter of a rich Spanish merchant ; and Fritz, who was now a handsome young fellow, could not help fancying that, whilst the old lady expressed her gratitude for the service with great volubility, the eyes of the younger expressed hers in a much more eloquent and emphatic language : in short, gratitude made her feel an affection for our hero,...
Strona 54 - ... for the old woman's support, but he was obliged to pay somebody to take care of her ; and as, for the remuneration he could afford, nobody could be found to devote themselves to the office, poor Rebecca was obliged to leave her beloved cottage, and take up her abode as a boarder under a strange roof. Here was a string of sorrows and disappointments falling upon the innocent and good from the wickedness of one person ! But so it always is. CHAPTER IV. "Deliver me from the workers of iniquity,...
Strona 159 - Who are you?" said the man, seizing the boy by the arm, "and what brought you here ? " "I came aboard myself, sir," replied Fritz. "What!" said the man, " I suppose, if the truth was known, you are some young thief escaped from justice ? " "I'm not a thief, sir," answered Fritz; ' ' I only ran away from my master, who was going to beat me ; " and, on being further interrogated, he related his history ; whereupon the man to whom he was speaking, who happened to be the steward, took him to the captain,...