Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . ing at the bows, indicatedto him which way to go, by rapping with Elfreds cane on the lar-board or starboard side of the boat, whichever way he wished it toincline. By this means Elfred was enabled to paddle the boatvery well. He took it straight to the land, being guided and gov-erned in his work all the way by the rappings of the cane. The boys remained on the water more than two hours, andcaught a fine basket fu
Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . ing at the bows, indicatedto him which way to go, by rapping with Elfreds cane on the lar-board or starboard side of the boat, whichever way he wished it toincline. By this means Elfred was enabled to paddle the boatvery well. He took it straight to the land, being guided and gov-erned in his work all the way by the rappings of the cane. The boys remained on the water more than two hours, andcaught a fine basket full of fishes. During all this time neither ofthem spoke a word. For Park to speak would have been, ofcourse, utterly impossible, and for Elfred it would have been ut-terly useless. THE SWAN. S3 The swan. Elfreds picture. Jane Sophias story, CHAPTER XL THE SWAN One afternoon, when Jane Sophia went to see Elfred,she amused herself and him by pasting some of his pic-tures in a book of white paper, and then writing astory about each picture on the paper beneath is one of the stories which she wrote abouta picture of a swan. 3 There are two largre birds to be seen in this. 84 THE SWAN. The swan and the peacock compared. Lucy and James. picture. On the right is a peacock. The peacock stands perchedupon the branch of a tree. On the left is a swan, under the swan is floating on the water. His wings lie smoothly by hissides, and his neck is long and beautifully arched. The swan has a long neck. The peacock has a long tail. Theneck of the swan is beautiful in its form. The tail of the peacockis beautiful in its colors. There is a beauty of form and a beautyof color; the swan is distinguished for one, and the peacock forthe other. This pond is at the foot of a garden. The garden has a greatmany fruits and flowers in it, and a walk coming down from thehouse. The gate is at the foot of the walk, and there are stonesteps outside the gate leading down to the water. There is a
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