 | Pauline Frost Rafter - Readers - 1912 - 316 pages
...diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. HORACE MANN. I met a little Elf man, once, Down where the lilies blow. I asked him why...slightly frowned, and with his eye He looked me through arid through. " I'm quite as big for me," said he, " As you are big for you." JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.... | |
 | Margaret Winifred Haliburton - Readers - 1912 - 184 pages
...peach peaches charm clever reach reaches farm sever preach preaches arm ever I saw a little elf man once, Down where the lilies blow. I asked him why he was so small, And why he didn't grow. elf elves He slightly frowned, and with his eye He looked me through and through. "I 'm quite as big... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - Elocution - 1913 - 328 pages
...blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree. Shakespeare THINKING, INFLEXION, AND CHANGE OF PITCH 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... | |
 | John Walter Davis - Readers (Primary) - 1913 - 418 pages
...with his eye he look'd me through and #-=!$ *=£4r & n J*=t m mf cres. rail. ^ a tempo r nv=t=^^^m through, " I'm quite as big for me," said he, "As you are big for you!" To the Pupil: 1. In the second paragraph, why are single quotation marks used? 2. In the following... | |
 | Henry Carr Pearson, Mary Frederika Kirchwey - English language - 1914 - 332 pages
...carefully and write one from dictation each day until you have finished the exercise. I. The Elf-man 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." By permission of the Century Company. — John Kendrick Bangs. II.... | |
 | Henry Carr Pearson, Mary Frederika Kirchwey - English language - 1914 - 332 pages
...carefully and write one from dictation each day until you have finished the exercise. I. THE ELF-MAN 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." By permission of the Century Company. — JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. II.... | |
 | Howard Roscoe Driggs - English language - 1915 - 300 pages
...VERSES TO ENJOY AND LEARN your songs of Elfland merrier. Choose the poem you like best and memorize it. 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. Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear... | |
 | Henry Carr Pearson, Mary Frederika Kirchwey - English language - 1915 - 332 pages
...carefully and write one from dictation each day until you have finished the exercise. I. The Elf-man 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." By permission of the Century Company. — John Kendrick Bang; II.... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 658 pages
...is my toadstool?" loud he lamented. —And that's how umbrellas first were invented. THE LITTLE ELF I met a little Elf-man, once, Down where the lilies...asked him why he was so small, And why he didn't grow. Oliver Herford He slightly frowned, and with his eye He looked me through and through. "I'm quite as... | |
 | Calvin Noyes Kendall, George Alonzo Mirick - Education - 1915 - 408 pages
...to the particular grade and the individual pupil. One child may revel in quaint fancies, like: — I met a little elfman 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 as... | |
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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. 
