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...This book includes the classic alphabet, Sing-A-Song Of Sixpence, The Frog Who Would A Wooing go, The Three LIttle Pigs, Puss In Boot, and The Ugly Duckling. Fun for all ages! (Summary by Sam Stinson)...

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...Where? Unlike Alphabet Time Free of All Fire Sacred Night Air Clay Portrait Presence Time Whales Brushstrokes Kingfisher Mind, the Maker Dance Afloat Wild Blue Eye The Value Your Mind After This Intensity The Photogra...

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...st of it?” Adamina asked, sounding more like her rambunctious self. “’Tis the alphabet, the letters that make up the words that we say. You shall le... ...k the scroll and sighed. He gave her another scroll, this one containing the alphabet letters. “Write them until they match mine perfectly.” The ... ...ay go. But don’t show up at class tomorrow unless you have written a perfect alphabet.” He waited until Aislinn had gathered her things before he t... ...” Something in his voice made Aislinn furious. She still had to practice the alphabet; she hadn’t perfected one letter yet! But his tone suggested... ...t their free time sewing shirts and other items for the knights. A bard sang songs to entertain the ladies as they worked but he laid down his viol... ...the Alce cry. Never again would she see that majestic creature or that lovely song. And why can’t I shake the feeling that I saw something importan... ...teased. “I’m going to call you bard because you wish your life to be a bard’s song.” “You’re just jealous,” Geoffrey insisted. “I don’t think so.” ... ...ps to touch her as long as possible before he had to take a step back. A new song began, and the throng of people surged together again to begin th...

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... her mother’s attitude held the woman back from learning even the simple alphabet. “Ship!” Kelly interrupted, pointing to the word and the appropria... ...bushy beard wearing a multi coloured jumper and light trousers. The first song of the service was very up-tempo, pleasantly surprising Rick. He atte... ...e, yet not eager enough to do it in front of others. They sung a few more songs and before John closed in prayer, he invited people to come out the ... ... the floor to ceiling windows, a gentleman on the grand piano played love songs, entertaining those standing and seated at the bar. Thanking Rick fo... ...miled, unaware that Chris and Sandy exchanged a tense glance. “Mum made a song out of my name.” “Really?” Rick looked at Chris, whose wink implied a ...

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... meaning of the strange words or encourage the Bloon to learn the foreign alphabets. But then the letters would wriggle out of focus, and more often... ...own the 6 Bozo and the Storyteller dunes, the long mornings of making up songs beside the wine-streams, and the nights of playing dot-to-dot with t... ...wonder – the bright colours of the f owers, the scents of the plants, the songs of the birds in the trees – it was all a projection of the Storytell... ... to be eating samosas at a chai stand in Bombay, perhaps with a Hindi pop song playing on an old crackly radio while he argued with some- one about c...

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...m, as the angels charmed the lions in Daniel's cell?" ~ Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines Elissa Malcohn Deviations: Covenant CHAPTER 1 TripStone clo... ...bri, my firstborn, has been in the world for six seasons. He knows the Yata alphabet and almost all of his numbers. Evit has been in the world for t... ...- colored lips she had glossed with Yata oil to protect them from the wind. Songbirds and blossoms and mythical beasts spiraled around the small han... ...inging with the others in a festive caravan headed toward Basc. The journey song floated to her from the frontmost transport—a lively rhythm fast en... ...ewly come of age gazed at the visitors with guarded calm. Intermittent bird song broke into the quietude. Several drums began to beat a regal cadenc... ...tiffened, inflamed into claws. No one said a word. Even the melody of bird song became unbearable and the wind through the trees nothing but sinist...

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...A selection of nonsense poems, songs (not sung!), stories, and miscellaneous strangeness. The work includes the Owl and the Pussycat and a recipe for Amblongus Pie, which begins Take 4 pounds (say 4½ pounds) of fresh ablongusses and put them in a small pip...

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... TAUGHT ............................................................................................................................ 156 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET................................................................................................................................. 169 AS CONCERNS INTERPRETING THE DEITY....................................................

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...................................... ..................... 156 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET...................................................................... ... and it seemed to me that I must surely go crazy. O.M. And the new popular song? Y.M. Oh yes! “In the Swee eet By and By”; etc. Yes, the new popular s... ...o apart from you that it can conduct its affairs, sing Mark T wain 47 its songs, play its chess, weave its complex and ingeniously constructed dreams... ...or the con veying of feeling; but it seems to me that the chief virtue in song is melody, air, tune, rhythm, or what you please to call it, and that ... ...never have missed so much in my life. And Uhlic further says that Wagner’s song is true: that it is “simply emphasized intoned speech.” That certain... ... see, and in the second place to understand what he does see. A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET ( ( ( ( ( T T T T This ar his ar his ar his ar his article ticle t... ...ste; what was really needed was a new set of teeth. That is to say, a new alphabet. The heart of our trouble is with our foolish alphabet. It doesn’t... ...esn’t know how to spell, and can’t be taught. In this it is like all other alphabets except one—the phonographic. This is the only competent alphabet ... ...can spell and correctly pronounce any word in our language. That admirable alphabet, that brilliant alphabet, that inspired alphabet, can be learned i...

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.......... 14 THE ELEPHANT?S CHILD ......................................................................................................... 21 THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN ............................................................................................... 29 KANGAROO ........................................................................................................

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................................................................. 21 THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN .............................................................. .................................................................. 29 HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE ............................................................ ...— One million Hows, two million Wheres, And seven million Whys! THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO N OT ALWAYS was the Kangaroo as now we do behold h... ...h said, ‘That’s your fault.’ 33 Rudyard Kipling THIS is the mouth-filling song Of the race that was run by a Boomer, Run in a single burst—only event... ...ibe of Tegumai They cut a noble figure then! 53 Rudyard Kipling HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE T HE week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call h... ...the sound-pictures that 63 Rudyard Kipling they wanted, and there was the Alphabet, all complete. And after thousands and thousands and thou- sands o... ...ve a good thing alone when they saw it), the fine old easy, understandable Alphabet—A, B, C, D, E, and the rest of ‘em—got back into its proper shape ... ...eep with the Cat in its arms. ‘Now,’ said the Cat, ‘I will sing the Baby a song that shall keep him asleep for an hour. And he began to purr, loud and...

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...VOY ........................................................................................................................................ 8 II ? A SONG OF THE ROAD .......................................................................................................... 8 III ? THE CANOE SPEAKS ...............................................................................

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.................................................................... 8 II – A SONG OF THE ROAD ............................................................. ...ity in all that touches dialect; so that in every novel the letters of the alphabet are tor- tured, and the reader wearied, to commemorate shades of m... ...sing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore! II – A SONG OF THE ROAD The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger pl... ...outh now flees on feathered foot Faint and fainter sounds the flute, Rarer songs of gods; and still Somewhere on the sunny hill, Or along the winding ... ...ve The hum of city cabs that sought the Bois, Suburban ashes shivered into song. A patter and a chatter and a chirp And a long dying hiss – it was as ... ... your fortune lead Forever by the crooks of Tweed, Forever by the woods of song And lands that to the Muse belong; Or if in peopled streets, or in The...

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...dance with your letter: and, till then, I shalt say, in the words of the old song, Oh for Friday nicht! Friday s lang a-coming! Yours always, ... ...who instantly replied, in a shrill monotone, like a little boy repeating the alphabet, “As I was remarking, your Sub Excellency, this portentous move... ...u thought you saw—he thought he saw—” and then it sud denly went off into a song:— “He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: ... ...med to close in upon us and through the darkness harshly rang a strange wild song:— He thought he saw a Buffalo Upon the chimney piece: He... ...nd Bruno less natural that he should show it by such wild dances, such crazy songs! “He thought he saw a Rattlesnake That questioned him in Gr... ...vagely at Sylvie and Bruno, who were courteously listening to the Gardener’s song, “there would be no diffi culty whatever.” “Let’s hear that bit of ...

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...ery and deception was the origin of it. Men, I say, never did believe idle songs, never risked their soul’s life on allegories: men in all times, espe... ...ad a lingering fondness for Paganism, collected certain of their old Pagan songs, just about becoming obsolete then,— Poems or Chants of a mythic, pro... ...ked by them, make a great feature in tradition. Runes are the Scandinavian Alphabet; suppose Odin to have been the inventor of Letters, as well as “ma... ... Runes has some air of being original among the Norsemen: not a Phoenician Alphabet, but a native Scandi- 27 On Heroes navian one. Snorro tells us fa... ...h all manner of mythologies, symbolic practices, speculations, allegories, songs and sagas would naturally grow. Grow,— how strangely! I called it a s... ... as it were but toyed with the matter, these later Skalds; and it is their songs chiefly that survive. In later centuries, I suppose, they would go on... ... think;—by nature or accident that one has grown! In fact, these old Norse songs have a truth in them, an in- ward perennial truth and greatness,—as, ... ...omas Carlyle read, in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of Books. But the place where we are to ...

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...the neglect and detriment of the merely external and formal element of his song. Shelley recked little of the jots and tittles of literary craftsmansh... ..., and took its seat Beside the Daemon shape. Obedient to the sweep of aery song, _115 The mighty ministers Unfurled t... ...our wonted favour now! Mother of this unfathomable world! Favour my solemn song, for I have loved Thee ever, and thee only; I have watched ... ... _170 T umultuously accorded with those fits Of intermitted song. Sudden she rose, 44 V olume One As if her heart impatiently endured ... ... _565 The thunder and the hiss of homeless streams Mingling its solemn song, whilst the broad river Foaming and hurrying o’er its rugged path, Fel... ... _130 Nor that young imp, whom you have taught by rote Parricide with his alphabet? Nor Giacomo? Nor those two most unnatural sons, who stirred Enmit...

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... good lists they were—very well chosen, and very neatly arranged—sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule. The list she drew up when... ...way; and on opening this parcel, she had actually found, be- sides the two songs which she had lent Elizabeth to copy, a letter to herself; and this l... ...ceptable, and could accompany her own voice well. One accompaniment to her song took her agreeably by surprize—a second, slightly but correctly taken ... ...y taken by Frank Churchill. Her pardon was duly begged at the close of the song, and every thing usual followed. He was accused of having a delightful... ...rence—remained a little longer doubtful. T owards the end of Jane’s second song, her voice grew thick. 184 Emma “That will do,” said he, when it was ... ...g aloud—”you have sung quite enough for one evening—now be quiet.” Another song, however, was soon begged for. “One more;— they would not fatigue Miss... ...d him, which he could reach as he sat, “have your nephews taken away their alphabets—their box of letters? It used to stand here. Where is it? This is... ... thought; and producing the box, the table was quickly scattered over with alphabets, which no one seemed so much disposed to employ as their two selv... ... “It is too much a matter of fact, but here it is.—What two letters of the alphabet are there, that express perfection?” “What two letters!—express pe...

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...birds in a pye;’ ‘Which pye being open’d they began to sing’ (This old song and new simile holds good), ‘A dainty dish to set before the King,... ...es the word Miltonic’ mean ‘sublime, ’ He deign’d not to belie his soul in songs, Nor turn his very talent to a crime; He did not loathe the S... ...ntime, Sir Laureate, I proceed to dedicate, In honest simple verse, this song to you. And, if in flattering strains I do not predicate, ‘T i... ...ling. She knew the Latin — that is, ‘the Lord’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and the... ...nd said there was analogy between ‘em; She proved it somehow out of sacred song, But I must leave the proofs to those who ‘ve seen ‘em; But th... ...o hymn Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample: But Virgil’s songs are pure, except that horrid one Beginning with ‘Formosum Pastor ... ...rom the same clime With Hannibal, and wears the Tyrian tunic Of Dido’s alphabet; and this is rational As any other notion, and not national);—...

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... and the Carolinas; there are few po- ems with a nobler music for the ear: a songful, tuneful land; and if the new Homer shall arise from the Western ... ...s after the retiring waves, trilling together in a chorus of infinitesi- mal song. Strange sea-tangles, new to the European eye, the bones of whales, ... ...hear the guitar accompany, and one of these old, heart-breaking Spanish love-songs mount into the night air, perhaps in a deep baritone, perhaps in th... ... far- ther on and find another hamlet. “Not here, O Apollo!” will become his song. Thus Trouville and, the other day, St. 54 Across the Plains Raphae... ...y looking at this book. Here, I open it with my eyes shut. Read one of these songs – read this one – and tell me, you who are a man of intelligence, i... ... phrase; a vague sense of emotion (about nothing) in the very letters of the alphabet: the romance of language. His honest head was very nearly empty,...

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...ulty; and a composition in needlework representing fruit, a kettle, and an alphabet. All the movables, from the wardrobes to the chairs and tables, ha... ...as enthralled by Ada’s singing and told me that she seemed to know all the songs that ever were writ ten—and Mr. Jarndyce, and I were the audience. A... ... instructing and that counsel appearing for B; and so on through the whole alphabet, like the history of the apple pie. And thus, through years and ye... ...outhful voices with having boiled a boy, choruses frag ments of a popular song to that effect and importing that the boy was made into soup for the w... ...pular, commends him highly to the jurymen and public, observing that for a song in character he don’t know his equal and that that man’s character war... ...me dirty playbills; and against the wall were pasted several large printed alphabets in several plain hands. “What are you doing here?” asked my guard... ...an to walk about. Mr. Skimpole played the melody of one of Ada’s favourite songs. Ada and I both looked at Mr. Jarndyce, think ing that we knew what ... ...hed, or to playing fragments of airs on the piano, or to singing scraps of songs, or to lying down on his back under a tree and looking at the sky—whi...

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... named for it. This is good evidence that Frankfort was the first place it occurred at. Frankfort has another distinction—it is the birthplace of the ... ...—and never even cared to discover whether I had dreamed the fire or actually seen it. I am told that in a German concert or opera, they hardly ever en... ...se the matter got noised about or any accident happened. So I char- tered the raft and the crew and took all the responsibilities on myself. With a ra... ...dangers of the deep, and kindred matters; but as the gray east began to redden and the mysterious solemnity and silence of the dawn to give place to t... ...easants would tell him about the ghost that sang in the cave, and that as soon as they described the ballad he would know that none but he and she kne... ... tressed about the Specter of the Haunted Cave. It was said that ill luck of one kind or another always overtook any one who had the misfortune to hea... ... it mean anything you want to. You can begin with schlag-ader, which means artery, and you can hang on the whole dictionary, word by word, clear throu... ...ective. Observe these examples: Freundschaftsbezeigungen. Dilettantenaufdringlichkeiten. Stadtverordnetenversammlungen. These things are not words, th... ...s I have al- ready mentioned. But far before this virtue stands another— that of spelling a word according to the sound of it. After one short lesson ...

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...hat to admiration. In Adelaide, in Tennyson’s Maud, and in some of Heine’s songs, you get the absolute 26 Robert Louis Stevenson expression of this m... ...sed mortal conditions in a fine credulity; and they can only show us a few songs in a by- gone taste, a few actions worth remembering, and a few child... ... to differ with every ceremony of politeness, is the only “one undisturbed song of pure concent” to which we are ever likely to lend our musical voice... ... in which Morgan made flip and salmagundi, smoked his pipe, sang his Welsh songs, and swore his queer Welsh imprecations. There are portions of this b... ... can- not so much as take a walk except in character. I could not learn my alphabet without some suitable mise-en-scene, and had to act a business man... ...suffers itself to be gulled and led by the nose with the fag end of an old song. And it goes deeper than this: when children are together even a meal ...

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...as so unused to see the sunrise, that she hailed it with one of her finest songs. Her attitude, quite as much as her tinsel, drew the peasants about h... ...earing of my tal- ent for catching otters, for I know ‘em as you know your alphabet, he says to me like this: ‘Pere Fourchon,’ says he, “when you find... ...to public education. He helped the children to make paper boats with their alphabets much oftener than he taught them how to spell; he scolded them in... ...And the Lovelace of the valley departed, whistling the tune of the martial song,— 187 Balzac “You who know the hussars of the Guard, Don’t you know t... ...k, were seated, a bird, but I know not what bird it was, sang its au- tumn song, its farewell song, to which the other songsters listened,—a song welc...