类别：儿童英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： I'm not at all sure, Under-Secretary Sternwheeler said, that I fully understand the necessity for your ... ah ... absenting yourself from your post of duty, Mr. Retief. Surely this matter could have been dealt with in the usual wayassuming any action...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： I wonder if you know that stories have a way of beginning themselves? Sometimes they even do more than this. They tell themselvesbeginning and ending just where they pleasewith no consideration at all for the author or the reader.Perhaps you have dis...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： These tales are at last put upon paper, after having served the demands of a generation of little folknow grown tallfor stories of when papa was a boy. All the tales are founded upon facts, and many are incidents and experiences reproduced as faithfu...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： DO you see that ere gentleman in the buggy, with the clipt un? enquired Ned Stocker, as he pointed with his whip at a chaise, some fifty yards in advance. Well, for all hes driving there so easy like, and comfortable, he once had a gig-shaft, and tha...
简介： ONE dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until ones cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Teenie Weenies had known for some time that a tribe of tiny wild men lived in a big swamp many teenie weenie miles from the shoe house. Field mice and birds had carried the news of these strange little people to the Teenie Weenies. The wild men l...
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简介： A conceited jackdaw was vain enough to imagine that he wanted nothing but the coloured plumes to make him as beautiful a bird as the Peacock. Puffed up with this wise conceit, he dressed himself with a quantity of their finest feathers, and in this b...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Mamma, said little Edith, looking up from the toys with which she was playing at the feet of her mothermamma, why does Motee Ayah never come in to prayers?Mrs. Tuller was seated at her desk in the large room of her bungalow (house) in India. The day...
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简介： I was wandering among the tall grass of the slopes, listening to the soft whistling of the wind; allowing the grass to caress my toga and thighs. It was a day soft and clear; a day accepted by the young, cherished by we old. Across the gently undulat...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Through the still summer dusk the night mail for London roared down the long declivity, clashed into a cutting and forth again, screamed, flashed past the deserted little station of Dunford, and thundered triumphantly along the level towards Kitty Ca...
