OH, so many dainty things can be cut out of paste- board and pasted together! In this fashion there was cutand pasted a castle so large that it took up a whole tabletop, and it was painted so that ...
THERE once was a man who held an office that re-quired good penmanship.While he filled the office ablyotherwise, he was incapable of good penmanship. So headvertised in the newspaper for someone wi...
all the birds of the forest were sitting upon the branches of the trees, which had quite enough leaves; and yet the birds were unanimous in their desire for more leaves - the “leaves” of a journal...
it was a sunday morning. the sun shone brightly and warmly into the room, as the air, mild and refreshing, flowed through the open window. and out under god's blue heaven, where fields and me....
you're out to dinner. the food was delicious and the service was fine. you decide to leave a big fat tip - why? the answer may not be as simple as you think.当你在外面吃饭的时候,食物可口,服务周到,....
there was once a young man who studied to become a poet. he wanted to be a poet by next easter, so that he could marry and earn his living from poetry, which he knew was just a matter of making things...
belonging to the lordly manor-house was beautiful, well-kept garden, with rare trees and flowers; the guests of the proprietor declared their admiration of it; the people of the neighborhood, from tow...
what did the whole family say? well listen first to what little marie said.it was little marie's birthday, the most wonderful of all days, she imagined. all her little boy friends and girl friends ca....
"i'll tell you a story," said the wind. "kindly remember," said the rain, "that it's my turn to talk. you've been howling around the corner at the top of your voice quite long enough.""is th...
you ought to have known aunty; she was so lovely. and yet, to be more specific, she wasn't lovely in the usual sense of the word, but she was sweet and charming and funny in her own way - just the ty....