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 231
irds require graA-el. After a month of careful training, our captivewould trot, gallop, obey the sound of our voice, feedfrom our hand; and, in fact, showed himself per- 214 The Swiss Family Robinson fectly docile. Now our ingenuity was taxed to theutmost. How were we to saddle and bridle a… … JACK AND THE OSTRICH how his movements were checked by sudden dark-ness, and how, with the light, power returned tohis limbs. I immediately constructed a leathern hood, toreach from the neck to the beak, cutting holes in itfor the eyes and ears. Over the eyeholes I contrived square flaps…
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