Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 332
he sides were as slippery as a mirror, and thereseemed no possible means of reaching the top. Hebegan to climb, but he slid backward at every step.If I were a bird, now, he said to himself; but itwas only half a wish, and no Avings grew. While he thus stood, not knowing how to helphimself, he saw… … THE DRUMMER ON THE BRIM OF THE GIANT S HAT What fools you must be, he cried, to want asaddle when you have not a horse to place it upon! This saddle is worth a contest, said one of themen; for whoever seats himself upon it and wisheshimself somewhere, even if it be at the end of theworld, will have…
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