Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading Selected from English and American Literature

Thou shalt have a little bed Made for thee, and overspread With brown leaves for coverlet, Which the tearful dew has wet. I, among the songs of Spring, Will miss the song thou d...

Some little mice sat in a barn to spin; Pussy came by, and popped her head in; "Shall I come in, and cut your threads off?" "Oh, no, kind sir, you would snap our heads off."

The attentive reader of this little book will be apt to notice very soon that though its title is _Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading_, the verse occupies nine tenths, the...

At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, There's a thrush that sings loud,--it has sung for three years; Poor Susan has passed by the spot, and has heard In the sile...