Journeys through Bookland - a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922) (14596542440)

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Title: Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: Chicago : Bellows-Reeve
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
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E FOX AND THE GRAPES A HUNGRY Fox once saw some fine, luscious.grapes hanging temptingly from a A^ine a fewfeet above his head. He leaped and snapped andleaped again, but never could he quite reach thegrapes. So many times did he try that he tjredhimself out completely, and it was some time beforehe could drag himself limping away. As he went along he grumbled savagely to him-self, What nasty things those grapes are! Nogentleman would eat a thing so sour. When a person says he does not want a thingwhich he knows he cannot get, we may hear someone exclaim Soin* grapes! Nearly every oneknows just what the speaker means, for this fableis many times older than any of us. People keepreading it and liking it because it shows up a com-mon trait of character in a very sharp manner. Wemight say, JNIost every man thinks that the thinghe cannot have is no good, but nobody -would re-member the saying half as long as he remembers thelittle fable of the Fox and the Grapes. 136 The Three Little Pigs
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THE THREE LITTLE PIGS Adapted LONG, long ago, when pigs could talk, and longi before any one ever heard of bacon, an oldpiggy mother lived all alone with her three little sons.Their pretty little home was right in the middleof a big oak forest whfere acorns were so plentifuland so good that every little pig grew fat and asround as an apple. All were just as happy as happycould be until one sad, sad year when no rains came,and the frosts killed all the acorns. Then, indeed,poor Mrs. Piggy-wiggy had a hard time to find foodfor her little ones. One day when she had workedhard and found only three acorns, she called hersons to her, and while the tears rolled down her The Three Little Pigs 137 cheeks, told the little pigs that she must send themout into the world to seek their fortune. She kissed every one of them and started themon their travels, each down a different path, andeach carrying a neat bundle slung on a stick acrosshis shoulder. The first little pig had not gone far when he me