 | Book - 1859 - 334 pages
...water flows, Where the grass is fresh and fine, Pretty cow, go there and dine. IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower. How skilfully she builds her cell ; How neat she spreads the wax ; And labours hard to store it well With... | |
 | Picture book - 1859 - 156 pages
...honey. When the sun shines, the bees are busy among the flowers. As Susan looks at them, she says— How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour; And gather honey all the day, From eveiy opening flower. In works of labour or of skill, I must be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief... | |
 | Edward Fitch Underhill, Q. K. Philander Doesticks - American wit and humor - 1859 - 350 pages
...lateness of the hour, until he had put ice into their boot-legs and shirt-bosoms. in nn How doih the litUe busy bee Improve each shining hour And gather honey all the day From every opening _ . nine o'clock one evening, the members of the club had casually convened in tho club-room, although... | |
 | 1859 - 782 pages
...mistress, repeated the first words her memory supplied her with — '"How doth the little busy bee improre each shining hour, And gather honey all the day from every opening flower. Poor things, it was evident what their object was, but equally so that they were unconscious of the... | |
 | Little poems - 1860 - 160 pages
...let it come to Winter's ear How widely wept, for oh ! how dear The lovely things he could condemn ! BUSY BEE. How doth the little busy bee Improve each...honey all the day, From every opening flower. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads the wax, In works of labour or of skill, I would... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Canada - 1860 - 416 pages
...incoherency, imitating her mistress, repeated the first words her memory supplied her with — ' " How doth the little busy bee improve each shining...gather honey all the day from every opening flower." ' Poor things, it was evident what their object was, but equally so that they were unconscious of the... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1860 - 216 pages
...cultivated enclosure. — Paley. 3. Against Idleness and Mischief. (To be read with simplicity of tone.) 1. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flow'r ! 2. How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labours hard to... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1860 - 132 pages
...im-pr6ve' build§ some'thing gSth'er sprSadf hSalth'ful first hon'ey la'bor§ ac-count' year§ 1. How ddlh the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And...gather honey all the day From every opening flower! 2. How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads her wax! t And labors hard to store it well... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1860 - 468 pages
...who have been selected to enjoy it. Jane, 1848 THE OAK OPENINGS. CHAPTER I. How doth the little lusy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower. Watts' Hymns for Children. WE have heard of those who fancied that they beheld a signal instance of... | |
 | William True Sleeper - Boys - 1861 - 194 pages
...handsome bow, and then, in a very clear voice and distinct utterance, spoke these beautiful stanzas:— " How doth the little busy bee * ^ Improve each shining...skillfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax, And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes ! " In works of labor, or of... | |
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HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower... 
