Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . )oy?Oh, the worlds running over with joy!Dont you hear ? Dont you see ?Hush! look! In my treeIm as happy as happy can be! id the brown thrush keeps singing, A nest doyou see,And five eggs hid by me in the juniper tree?Dont meddle! dont touch! little girl, little boy,Or the world will lose some of its joy!Now Im glad! now Im free!And I always shall you never bring sorrow to me. So the merry brown thrush sings away in the tree, To you and to me, to you and to me;And he sing
Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . )oy?Oh, the worlds running over with joy!Dont you hear ? Dont you see ?Hush! look! In my treeIm as happy as happy can be! id the brown thrush keeps singing, A nest doyou see,And five eggs hid by me in the juniper tree?Dont meddle! dont touch! little girl, little boy,Or the world will lose some of its joy!Now Im glad! now Im free!And I always shall you never bring sorrow to me. So the merry brown thrush sings away in the tree, To you and to me, to you and to me;And he sings all the day, little girl, little boy,Oh, the worlds running over with joy!But long it wont you know ? Dont you see ?Unless were as good as can be. 148 The Hardy Tix Soldier. THE HARDY TIN SOLDIER By Haxs Christian Andersex THERE were once five-and-twenty tin soldiers;they were all brothers, for they had all beenborn of one old tin spoon. They shouldered theirmuskets, and looked straight before them; their uni-form was red and blue, and veiy splendid. The firstthing they had heard in the world, when the lid wastaken off their box, had been the words, Tin. sol-diers! These words Mere uttered by a little boy,clapping his hands: the soldiers had been given tohim, for it was his birthday; and now he put themupon the table. Each soldier was exactly like therest; but one of them had been cast last of all, andthere had not been enough tin to finish him; however,he stood as firmly upon his lone leg as the others ontheir two; and it was just this soldier who becameremarkable. On the table on which they had been placed stoodmany other playthings, but the toy that attractedmost attention was a neat castle of cardboard. The Hakdv Tin Soldier 149 Through tlic little wi
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