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 301
m sorry to say they are relationsof ours who do us no credit. A great many yearsago they were just like us; but they were so lazy,and cowardly, and greedy, that instead of goingdown to the sea every year to see the world andgrow strong and fat, they chose to stay and pokeabout in the little streams… … CHAPTER IV ^O the salmon went up, after Tom hadwarned them of the wicked old otter;and Tom went down, but slowly andcautiously, coasting along the shore.He was many days about it, for it wasmany miles down to the sea; and per-haps he would never have found hisway, if the fairies had not guided him,…
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