Our Little Ones. W.T. Adams, Ed (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...to school. The girls have found out a nice way for seeing for grandma. They take a spool of cotton and a paper of large needles. They thread every needle and leave it hanging on the spool. This saves their grandmother's eyes. All she then has to do is to put away the needle when she has used all the cotton. Then she takes another, and another, till the whole twenty-four are used. Then the girls thread the twenty-four again. In this way they "see for grandma." Grandma makes clothing for the poor. She can see enough to sew, but not enough, even with glasses, to thread her needle. R. w. LOWRIE. What does it mean when the crickets chirp, And away to the south-land the wild-geese steer? When apples are falling and nuts are brown?--These are the signs that autumn is here. What does it mean when the days are short? When the leaves are gone and the brooks are dumb? When the fields are white with the drifting snows?--These are the signs that winter has come. The old stars set, and the new ones rise, And skies that were stormy grow bright and clear; And so the beautiful, wonderful signs Go round and round with the changing year. M. E. N. HATHEWAY. TRIP. Trip was the tiniest little bird Polly had ever seen, and the prettiest. He had a very long, very narrow black bill. His back and breast were covered with lovely green and red feathers. Polly longed to hold him in her hand, but he was very wild. Aunt Nellie said she must be very careful not to frighten him. Aunt Nellie found him under a bush near the house. He was lying quite still, with his bill partly open, his little legs curled up, and his wings spread out. He was so small that she hardly noticed him at first. When she saw that it was a little bird, she picked him up and earned him home. I think he had n...