 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 878 pages
...Who fought to save his country, and whose lot It was to die unknown and rest forgot ? THE LITTLE ELF I MET a little Elf-man, once, Down where the lilies blow. I asked him why he was so small And why he did n't grow. He slightly frowned, and with his eye He looked me through and through. " I 'm quite... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 878 pages
...Who fought to save his country, and whose lot It was to die unknown and rest forgot ? THE LITTLE ELF I met a little Elf-man, once, Down where the lilies blow. I asked him why he was so small And why he did n't grow. He slightly frowned, and with his eye He looked me through and through. " I 'm quite... | |
 | Education - 1901
...central thought ; this includes the lesser.—Chicago Institute Course of Study. "I met a little elf man once, Down where the lilies blow ; I asked him why he was so small, And why he didn't grow. He looked me thro' and thro' ; 'I'm quite as big for me,' said he, 'As you are big for you.' " He slightly... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - American poetry - 1903 - 279 pages
...say " Please;" And then you know I'd make it sew, And curtsey with its knees ! r "A." The Little Elf I met a little Elf-man, once, Down where the lilies...as big for me," said he, "As you are big for you." John Kendrick Bangs. r "One, Two, Three"* It was an old, old, old, old lady And a boy that was half-past... | |
 | Sarah Row Christy, Edward Richard Shaw - Natural history - 1903 - 112 pages
...can never find the ElfQueen," she sighed. Mamma said that May was asleep when she saw the elf-man. I met a little elf-man once, Down where the lilies blow. I asked him why he was so small, And why he did not grow. He frowned at me, and with his eye He looked me through and through. " I am as big for... | |
 | Sarah Row Christy, Edward Richard Shaw - Readers - 1903
...Mamma about it, Mamma said that May was when she saw the elf-man. I met a little elf-man once, asleep Down where the lilies blow. I asked him why he was so small, And why he did not grow. He frowned at me, and with his eye He looked me through and through. I am as big for... | |
 | Eulalie Osgood Grover - Readers (Primary) - 1905
...house in. The wise little Pig still lives in his strong brick house. Why don't you grow? THE LITTLE ELF I met a little Elfman once, Down where the lilies...me through and through. "I'm quite as big for me," he said, "As you are big for you." —John Kendrick Pangs 8 9 r THE TEN LITTLE RABBITS /. Little Rabbit... | |
 | Albert Le Roy Bartlett - 1906
...following verb groups: wan fighting li<ixft>im in hidden are rexting Selection for Memory. TIIK LITTLK ELF. I met a little Elf-man, once, Down where the lilies...as big for me," said he, " As you are big for you." LESSON XCII. The Nominative Case and the Possessive Case. (Review Lessons XXV. and XXVI.) I. Write... | |
 | John Benjamin Wisely, Sarah E. Griswold - English language - 1906 - 274 pages
...studied in this book. Be careful to write neatly, spell correctly, and punctuate properly. THE LITTLE ELF I MET a little elf-man once Down where the lilies...me through and through. "I'm quite as big for me," he said, "As you are big for you." Lesson 44 An Exercise in Composition THE BONFIRE "^HIS picture shows... | |
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I met a little Elf-man, once, Down where the lilies blow. I asked him why he was so small, And why he didn't grow. He slightly frowned, and with his eye He looked me through and through. "I'm quite as big for me," said he, "As you are big for you. 
