Home amusements; a collection of riddles, charades, rebuses, etc |
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AFRICAN WANDERERS alphabet amusement animal answer Author beautiful BIRDS called catch chair CHARADE circle cloth coloured dear delight dress eyes FANNY fat hen Fcap Fieldfare flowers Frontispiece genteel GILBERT gilt edges give Grand Mufti guess guesser hand HARRISON WEIR head HISTORY hold Illustrated by H Illustrations by JOHN JOHN ABSOLON JOHN GILBERT king LADY F leader letter LIST OF BIRDS look maid mother ne'er neighbour never papa PARLOUR GAMES party pay a forfeit person plain played player Primmy Queen Victoria question Red-cap repeated reply rhyme RIDDLE RODERICK RODK round Royal 16mo RUSHINGTON SALLY seat Second Edition seen SIR DAVID SIR F SIR FELIX Small 4to sometimes stand Super-royal 16mo tell thing third THOMAS HOOD thump tion Titiens tree trencher turn walk wand WEIR whole wish word young
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138. oldal - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
17. oldal - Every-Day Things ; or, Useful Knowledge respecting the Principal Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Substances in Common Use. Second Edition, revised. 18mo., cloth, Is. 6d. " A little encyclopaedia of useful knowledge, deserving a place in every juvenile library.
42. oldal - THE VOWELS We are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.
30. oldal - Mamma's Lessons. For her Little Boys and Girls. Thirteenth Edition, with eight Engravings. Price 2s. 6rf. cloth; 3s. 6d. coloured, gilt edges. The Mine; Or, Subterranean Wonders. An Account of the Operations of the Miner and the Products of his Labours; with a Description of the most important in all parts of the World.
7. oldal - twas muttered in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence...
32. oldal - SHOES. 2. CINDERELLA. 3 COCK ROBIN. 4. COURTSHIP OF JENNY WREN. 5. DAME TROT AND HER CAT. 6. HISTORY OF AN APPLE PIE. 7. HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.
29. oldal - Little Lessons for Little Learners, in Words of One Syllable. By Mrs. BARWELL.
22. oldal - The Modern British Plutarch; Or, Lives of Men distinguished in the recent History of our Country for their Talents, Virtues and Achievements. By WC TAYLOR, LL.D. Author of "A Manual of Ancient and Modern History,
28. oldal - Engravings. 2s. 6d. plain; 3s. 6d. coloured. Bible Illustrations; Or, a Description of Manners and Customs peculiar to the East, and especially Explanatory of the Holy Scriptures. By the Rev. BH DRAPER. With Engravings. Fourth Edition. Revised bv Dr. KITTO, Editor of " The Pictorial Bible,
25. oldal - True Stories from Ancient History, , . . , . Chronologically arranged from the Creation of the World to the Death : of Charlemagne. Twelfth Edition.