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 86
I would spread my branchesfar around and look out from my crown into thewide world. The birds would then build nests inmy boughs, and when the wind blew I would nodgrandly. It took no pleasure in the sunshine, in the birds,or in the red clouds that went sailing over it morn-ing and evening. When it… … THE SWALLOWS AND THE STORK CAME ters went by, and when the third came, the littleTree had grown so tall that the hare was obligedto run around it. Oh, to grow, to grow, and become old; thats 70 The Fir Tree the only fine thing in the world, thought theTree. In the autumn the woodcutters always came…
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