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 451
a great garden, where the elder trees smelt sweet,and bent their long green branches down to thecanal that wound through the park. Oh, here it was so beautiful, such a gladness ofspring! and from the thicket came three gloriouswhite swans that rustled their wings, and swam 426 The Ugly Duckling… … A BEAUTIFUL WHITE SWAN ! to approach them. But it is of no consequence!Better to be killed by them than to be pursued byducks, and beaten by fowls, and pushed about bythe girl who takes care of the poultry yard, and tosuffer hunger in winter! And he flew out into the water, and swam toward The Ugly…
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