Stories from old-fashioned children's books brought together and introduced to the reader (1900)
Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900 · London : The Leadenhall Prefs, Ltd. · leaf 156
PLEASING INSTRUCTOR. Music and the Bird. [From The Pleasing Instructor; or a Packet oj Pictures for allGood Children. London : printed by & for Hodgson & Co.,Juvenile Press, No. lo Newgate Street. Sixpence.] A LITTLE tame bird came and perched on the top of apianoforte, on which a gentleman… … The vibration—that is, the shaking of the strings, made theboards of the piano tremble, and thereby tickled its feet verymuch. It was frightened, yet had not sense enough to hopoff, and enjoy the pleasure of the music without the pain ofbeing too near it. How pleasing soever things look in the…
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