Peter and Polly in SpringEight year old Polly Howe and her brother Peter enjoy many activities in the spring such as tapping their maple trees for sugar, picking flowers, making mud pies, and picnicking. |
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afraid asked Peter asked Polly Aunt Polly birds blossoms blue boil boys brook Brownie buttercups called catkins cats cheerily climbed Copy-cat cried Peter cried Polly DAISY DOLLS dandelions door dryads eggs father fence fir trees flowers frightened funny glad gone Good-by goody grandmother grass Gray Pussy green ground heard hens hepaticas hill hole ice cake jumped jumper kettle lightning lilacs look maple trees mayflowering melt morning mother robin nest Never-still pail Perhaps Peter and Polly Peter and Tim pick pies pink play Polly ran Polly's pussy willows RHODA CAMPBELL CHASE river road Shiny Land shouted singing sirup slide smell snow song Soon spring spring beauties stop Story Lady sugar tell Tim's to-day took Wag-wag wait walk watch whistle winter wish worm yellow
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Page 47 - TIME TO RISE A BIRDIE with a yellow bill Hopped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: "Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head!
Page 4 - ... ambitious and lifted by force of youthful sap straight above the hedgerow to sink of its own weight presently and progress with crafty tendrils ; swifts shot through the air with outstretched wings like crescent-headed shaftless arrows darted from the clouds ; the chaffinch with a feather in her bill ; all the living staircase of the spring, step by step, upwards to the great gallery of the summer — let me watch the same succession year by year.