 | 1878 - 486 pagine
...OR, THE TWO DONKEYS. THERE was once a little boy who was not very strong, and it was thought right that he should be a great deal in the open air, and therefore it was also thought right that he should have a donkey. The plan was for this little boy... | |
 | Nicholas St Nicholas, St. Nicholas - 1886 - 322 pagine
...nothing but hopping." THERE was once a little boy who was not very strong, and it was thought right that he should be a great deal in the open air, and therefore it was also thought right that he should have a donkey. The plan was for this little boy... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1884 - 336 pagine
...OR, THE TWO DONKEYS. THERE was once a little boy who was not very strong, and it was thought right that he should be a great deal in the open air, and therefore it was also thought right that he should have a donkey. The plan was for this little boy... | |
 | Maria Catherine Bishop - 1894 - 378 pagine
...is to ask the same for his sister. He is naturally gay ; his health requires that he should be much in the open air, and I think it is better to let him play and work in his garden plots on the terrace than to take him longer walks. The exercise that children take in running... | |
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I have accustomed them all to regard 'yes' or 'no,' once uttered by me, as irrevocable; but I always give them reasons for my decision, suitable to their ages, to prevent their thinking that my decision comes from ill-humor. My son can not read, and he... 