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Slovenly Betsy by Heinrich Hoffmann 2 Free Kids' Audiobook Children's Online Library.
chapter 2 of slovenly betsy this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by michael van hall slovenly betsy by heinrich hoffman phobia anne the proud girl this phobian was a very proud girl her nose had always an upright curl she thought herself better than others beside and beat even the peacock himself in pride she thought the earth was so dirty and brown that never by chance would she look down and she held up her head in the air so high that her neck began stretching by and by it stretched and it stretched and it grew so long that her parents thought something must be wrong it stretched and stretched and they soon began to look up with fear at their phobian they prayed her to stop her upward gaze but phobia kept on in her old proud ways until her neck had grown so long and spare that her head was more than her neck could bear and it bent to the ground like a willow tree and brought down the head of this proud phobia until whenever she went out a walk to take the boys would shout here comes a snake her head got to be so heavy to drag on that she put it on a little wagon so don't my friends hold your head too high or your neck may stretch too by and by end of phobia and the proud girl recording by michael van hall in riverside california

Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 26, April 27, 1880
by Various Authors

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section 2 of harper's young people volume 1 issue 26 april 27 1880 this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by larry wilson harper's young people volume 1 issue 26 april 27 1880 something about fans kanji was the first lady who carried a fan she lived in ages which are past and for the most part forgotten and she was the daughter of a chinese mandarin who ever saw mandarin even on a tea chest without his fan in china and japan to this day everyone has a fan and there are fans of all sorts for everybody the japanese waves his fan at you when he meets you by way of greeting and the baker who solicits for alms has the exceedingly small coin made on purpose for charity presented to him on the tip of the fan in ancient times amongst the greeks and romans fans seemed to have been enormous they were generally made of feathers and carried by slaves over the heads of their masters and mistresses to protect them from the sun or waved about before them to stir the air catherine de domicis carried the first folding fan ever seen in france and in the time of louis xiv the fan was a gorgeous thing often covered with jewels and worth a small fortune in england they were the fashion in the time of henry viii all his many wives carried them and atlas wept behind them a fan set in diamonds was once given to queen elizabeth upon new year's day the mexican feather fans which cortez had from montezuma were marvels of beauty and in spain a large black fan is the favorite it is said that the use of the fan is as carefully taught in that country as any other branch of education and that by a well-known code of signals a spanish lady can carry on a long conversation with anyone especially an admirer the japanese criminal of rank is politely executed by means of a fan on being sentenced to death he's presented with a fan which he must receive with a low bow and as he bows presto the executioner draws his sword and cuts his head off in fact there is a fan for every occasion in japan the boys schools of england by amelia e barr i suppose there are a few boys who have not heard of westminster abbey and who do not know that within its ancient and splendid walls the kings of england are crowned and the great the wise and the brave of every age are buried but few perhaps are aware that the abbey also contains the oldest and one of the most famous boys schools in the world it is true that the statutes of the school as they now exist are of less remote date than those of eaton and winchester schools being framed by henry viii and elizabeth but they no more represent the origin of westminster school than the reformation represents the origin of the english church westminster abbey was built by edward the confessor and the master of the novices sitting with his disciples in the western cloister was the beginning of westminster school it was without doubt this school that engulfed us the writer of a famous chronicle a.d 1043-1051 attended for he tells us...

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf 6 The Boy Free Children's Books Online.
section 6 of the wonderful adventures of nils

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the wonderful adventures of nils by selma logilev translated by velma swanston howard

in rainy weather wednesday march 30th it was the first rainy day of the trip as long as the wild geese had remained in the vicinity of wamblake they had had beautiful weather but on the day when they set out to travel farther north it began to rain and for several hours the boy had to sit on the goose back soaking wet and shivering with a cold in the morning when they had started it had been clear and mild the wild geese had flown high up in the air evenly and without haste with akka at the lead maintaining strict discipline and the rest in two oblique lines back of her they had not taken the time to shout any witty sarcas to the animals on the ground but as it was simply impossible for them to keep perfectly silent they sang out continually in writ with the wing strokes their usual coaxing call where are you here am i where are you here am i they all took part in this persistent calling and only stopped now and then to show the goose gander the landmarks they were traveling over the places on this route included lindard's olson's dry hill oversalm's manor krefenstas church steeple becca's cook's royal castle on the narrow isthmus between opman's lake and evas lake wrist mountain's steep precipice it had been a monotonous trip and when the rain clouds made their appearance the boy thought it was a real diversion in the old days when he had only seen the rain cloud from below he had imagined that they were grey and disagreeable but it was a very different thing to be up amongst them now he saw distinctly that the clouds were enormous carts which drove through the heavens with sky high loads some of them were piled up with huge grey sacks some with barrels some were so large that they could hold a whole lake and a few were filled with big utensils and bottles which were piled up to an immensible height and when so many of them had driven forward that they filled the whole sky it appeared as though someone had given a signal for all at once water commenced to pour down over the earth from utensils barrels bottles and sacks just as the first spring showers patted against the ground there arose such shouts of joy from all the small birds in grooves and postures that the whole air rang with them and the boy leaped high where he sat now we'll have rain rain gives us spring spring gives us flowers and green leaves green leaves and flowers gives us worms and insects worms and insects give us food and plentiful and good food is the best thing there is sang the birds the wild geese too were glad of the rain which came to awaken the growing things from their long sleep and to drive holes in the ice roofs on the lakes they were not able to keep up that seriousness any longer but began to send many calls over the neighborhood when they flew over the big potato patches which are so plentiful in the country around cryphansta and which still lay bare and black they screamed wake up and be useful here comes something that will awaken you you have idled long enough now when they saw people who hurried to get out of the rain they reproved them saying what are you in such a hurry about can't you see that it is raining rilos and cookies it was a big thick mist that moved northward briskly and followed close upon the geese they seemed to think that they dragged the mist along with them and just now when they saw great orchards beneath them they called out proudly here we come with animals here we come with roses here we come with apple blossoms and cherry buds here we come with peas and beans and turnips and...

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf 5 The Boy Free Children's Books Online.section 5 of the wonderful adventures of nils this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org

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the wonderful adventures of nils by selma laguelo translated by velma swanston howard the great crane dance on colabari

tuesday march 29th although there are many magnificent buildings since corner it must be acknowledged that there is not one among them that has such pretty walls as old colabari kulabar is low and rather long it is not by any means a big or imposing mountain on its broad summit you'll find woods and grain fields and one and another heather heath here and there round heather knolls and barren cliffs rise up it is not especially pretty up there it looks a good deal like all the other upland places in scorner he who walks along the path which runs across the middle of the mountain can't help feeling a little disappointed then he happens perhaps to turn away from the path and wanders off toward the mountain's side and looks down over the bluffs and then all at once he will discover so much that is worth seeing he hardly knows how he'll find time to take in the whole of it for it happens that kula bay does not stand on the land with plains and valleys around it like other mountains but it has plunged into the sea as far out as it could get not even the tiniest strip of land lies below the mountain to protect it against the breakers but these reach all the way up to the mountain walls and can polish and mold them to suit themselves this is why the walls stand there as richly ornamented as the sea and its helpmate the wind have been able to effect you'll find steep ravines that are deeply chiseled in the mountains sides and black crags that have become smooth and shiny under the constant lashing of the winds there are solitary rock columns that spring right up out of the water and dark grottoes with narrow entrances there are barren perpendicular precipices and soft leaf clad inclines there are small points and small inlets and small rolling stones that are rattlingly washed up and down with every dashing breaker there are majestic cliff arches that project over the water there are sharp stones that are constantly sprayed by a white foam and others that mirror themselves in unchangeable dark green still water there are giant troll cabins shaped in the rock and great crevices that lure the wonder to venture into the mountain depths all the way to coleman's hollow and over and around all these cliffs and rocks crawl and tangle tendrils and weeds trees grow there also but the wind's power is so great that trees have to transform themselves into clinging vines that they may get a firm hold on the steep precipice the oaks creep along on the ground while their foliage hangs over them like a low ceiling and long limb beaches stand in the ravines like great leaf tents these remarkable mountain walls with a blue sea beneath them and the clear penetrating air above them is what makes kula bay so dear to the people that great crowds of them haunt the place every day as long as the summer lasts but it is more difficult to tell what it is that makes it so attractive to animals that every year they gather there for a big play meeting this is a custom that has been observed since time immemorial and one should have been there when the first seaway was dashed into foam against the shore to be able to explain just why colabei was chosen as a rendezvous in preference to all other places

when the meeting is to take place the stags and roebucks and hers and foxes and all the other forefooters make the journey to kula bay the night before so as not to be absurd by the human beings just before sunrise they all march up to the playground which is a heather heath on the left side of the road and...

The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne 4 Adventure Novel Teens Family Entertainment Podcast.
chapter 5 of the coral island this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by tom weiss the coral island by r m valentine chapter 5 morning and cogitations connected therewith we luxuriate in the sea try our diving powers and make enchanting excursions among the coral groves at the bottom of the ocean the wonders of the deep enlarge the pun

what a joyful thing it is to awaken on a fresh glorious morning and find the rising sun staring into your face with dazzling brilliancy to hear the birds twittering in the bushes and to hear the murmuring of a rill or the soft hissing ripples as they fall upon the seashore at any time and in any place such sights and sounds are most charming but more especially are they so when one awakens to them for the first time in a novel and romantic situation with the soft sweet air of a tropical climate mingling with the fresh smell of the sea and stirring the strange leaves that flutter overhead and around one or ruffling the plumage of the stranger birds that fly inquiringly around as if to demand what business we have to intrude uninvited on their domains when i awoke on the morning after the shipwreck i found myself in this most delightful condition and as i lay upon my back upon my bed of leaves gazing up through the branches of the coconut trees into the clear blue sky and watched a few fleecy clouds that passed slowly across it my heart expanded more and more with an exalting gladness the like which i had never felt before while i meditated my thoughts again turned to the great and kind creator of this beautiful world as they had done on the previous day when i first beheld the sea and the coral reef with the mighty waves dashing over it into the calm waters of the lagoon while thus meditating i naturally be thought of my bible for i had faithfully kept the promise which i gave at parting to my beloved mother that i would read it every morning and it was with the feeling of dismay that i remembered i had left it in the ship i was much troubled about this however i consoled myself with reflecting that i could keep the second part of my promise to her namely that i should never omit to say my prayers so i rose quietly lest i should disturb my companions who were still asleep and stepped aside into the bushes for this purpose on my return i found them still slumbering so i again lay down to think over our situation just at this moment i was attracted by the sight of a very small parrot which jack afterwards told me was called a paraquet it was seated on a twig that overhung peterkin's head and i was speedily lost in admiration of its bright green plumage which was mingled with other gay colors while i looked i observed that the bird turned its head slowly from side to side and looked downwards first with the one eye and then with the other on glancing downwards i observed that peterkin's mouth was wide open and that this remarkable bird was looking into it peterkin used to say that i had not an atom of fun in my composition and that i never could understand a joke in regard to the latter perhaps he was right yet i think that when they were explained to me i understood jokes as well as most people but in regard to the former he must certainly have been wrong for this bird seemed to me to be extremely funny and i could not help thinking that if it should happen to faint or slip its foot or fall off the twig into peterkin's mouth he would perhaps think it funny too suddenly the paracat bent down its head and uttered a loud scream in his face this awoke him and with a cry of surprise he started it up while the foolish bird flew precipitately away oh you monster cried peterkin shaking his fist at the bird then he yawned and rubbed his eyes and asked what o'clock it was i smiled at this question and answered that as our watches were at the bottom of the sea i could not tell but...

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The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit Ch 9 Free Kids Audiobook Children's Online Library.
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the enchanted castle by e nesbit recorded by peter eastman

chapter nine

there is a curtain thin as gossamer clear as glass strong as iron that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real and when once people have found one of the little weak spots in that curtain which are marked by magic rings and amulets and the like almost anything may happen thus it is not surprising that mabel and kathleen conscientiously conducting one of the dullest dolls tea parties at which either had ever assisted should suddenly and both at once have felt a strange unreasonable but quite irresistible desire to return instantly to the temple of flora even at the cost of leaving the doll's tea service in an unwashed state and only half the raisins eaten they went as one has to go when the magic impulse drives one against their better judgment against their wills almost and the nearer they came to the temple of flora in the golden hush of the afternoon the more certain each was that they could not possibly have done otherwise

and this explains exactly how it was that when gerald and jimmy holding hands in the darkness of the passage uttered their first concerted yell just for the lark of the thing that yell was instantly answered from outside

a crack of light showed in that part of the passage where they had least expected the door to be the stone door itself swung slowly open and they were out of it in the temple of flora blinking in the good daylight an unresisting prey to kathleen's embraces and the questionings of mabel and you left that ugly wuckly loose in london mabel pointed out you might have wished it to be with you too it's all right where it is said gerald i couldn't think of everything and besides no thank you now we'll go home and seal up the ring in an envelope

i haven't done anything with the ring yet said kathleen i shouldn't think you'd want to when you see the sort of things it does with you said gerald it wouldn't do things like that if i was wishing with it kathleen protested look here said mabel let's just put it back in the treasure room and have done with it i ought and ever to have taken it away really it's a sort of stealing it's quite as bad really as eliza borrowing it to astonish her gentleman friend with i don't mind putting it back if you like said gerald only if any of us do think of a sensible wish you'll let us have it out again of course of course of course mabel agreed

so they trooped up to the castle and mabel once more worked the spring that let down the paneling and showed the jewels and the ring was put back among the odd dole ornaments that mabel had once said were magic how innocent it looks said gerald you wouldn't think there was any magic about it it's just like an old silly ring i wonder if what mabel said about the other things is true suppose we try don't said kathleen i think magic things are spiteful they just enjoy getting you into tight places i'd like to try said mabel only well everything's been rather upsetting and i've forgotten what i said anything was

so had the others perhaps that was why when gerald said that a bronze buckle laid on the foot would have the effect of seven league boots it didn't when jimmy a little of the city man he had been clinging to him still said that the steel collar would ensure you're always having money in your pockets his own remained empty and when mabel and kathleen invented qualities of the most delightful nature for various rings and chains and brooches nothing at all happened

it's only the ringfit's magic said mabel at last and i say she added in quite a different voice what...

The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit Ch 8 Free Kids Audiobook Children's Online Library.
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the enchanted castle by e nesbit recorded by peter eastman

chapter eight

it was but too plain the unfortunate baleth must have opened the door before the spell had faded while yet the ugly wuglies were something more than mere coats and hats and sticks they had rushed out upon him and had done this he lay there insensible was it a golf club or a hockey stick that had made that horrible cut on his forehead gerald wondered the girls had rushed to the sufferer already his head was in mabel's lap kathleen had tried to get it onto hers but mabel was too quick for her jimmy and gerald both knew what was the first thing needed by the unconscious even before mabel impatiently said water water what in jimmy asked looking doubtfully at his hands and then down the green slope to the marble bordered pool where the water lilies were your hat anything said mabel the two boys turned away

suppose they come after us said jimmy what come after us gerald snapped rather than asked the ugly what please jimmy whispered who's afraid gerald inquired but he looked to left and right very carefully and chose the way that did not lead near the bushes he scooped water up in his straw hat and returned to flora's temple carrying it carefully in both hands when he saw how quickly it ran through the straw he pulled his handkerchief from his breast pocket with his teeth and dropped it into the hat it was with this that the girls wiped the blood from the bailiff's brow we ought to have smelling salts said kathleen half in tears i know we ought they would be good mabel owned hasn't your aunt any yes but don't be a coward said gerald think of last night they wouldn't hurt you he must have insulted them or something look here you run we'll see that nothing runs after you

there was no choice but to relinquish the head of the interesting invalid to kathleen so mabel did it cast one glaring glance round the rhododendron bordered slope and fled towards the castle the other three bent over the still unconscious bailiff he's not dead is he asked jimmy anxiously no kathleen reassured him his heart's beating mabel and i felt it in his wrist what doctors do how frightfully good looking he is not so dusty gerald admitted i never know what you mean by good looking said jimmy and suddenly a shadow fell on the marble beside them and a fourth voice spoke not mabel's her hurrying figure though still in sight was far away quite a personable young man it said the children looked up into the face of the eldest of the ugly wigglys the respectable one jimmy and kathleen screamed i am sorry but they did hush said gerald savagely he was still wearing the ring hold your tongues i'll get him away he added in a whisper

very sad affair this said the respectable ugly wuggly he spoke with the curious accent there was something odd about his r's and his m's and ends were those of a person laboring under an almost intolerable cold in the head but it was not the dreadful ooh and ah voice of the night before kathleen and jimmy stooped over the bailiff even that prostrate form being human seemed some little protection but gerald strong in the fearlessness that the ring gave to its wearer looked full into the face of the ugly wuggly and started for though the face was almost the same as the face he had himself painted on the school drawing paper it was not the same for it was no longer paper it was a real face and the hands lean and almost transparent as they were were real hands as it moved a little to get a better view of the bailiff it was plain that it had legs arms live legs and arms and a self-supporting backbone it was alive indeed with a vengeance

how did it...

The Motor Girls by Margaret Penrose Girls' Adventure Story 4 Free-Audiobook Public Domain.
chapter 4 of the motor girls this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the motor girls by margaret penrose chapter four twenty thousand dollars say jack remark dead a few days later when the two were sprawled beside a brook with rod and real i believe i'll have to get better acquainted with the young folks out here honestly i feel wobbly when i get talking to them i've been out of touch with them so long that i'm afraid i'll ask after some dead and gone aunt or uncle or for some brother that has been in trouble and isn't spoken of anymore in polite society for instance who is ida ida giles you know the girl who was with sid he introduced me to her last night oh ida why she's just ida that's all but that's a good idea of yours i was thinking myself that you ought to begin studying up the blue book of chelten society now as to ida the redhead girl not really red corrected ed slowly but that bright carroty shade so deliciously like lobster allah oh pardon me and jack assumed an affected manner of course ida's hair is not really red not merely charity is the very word needed well she is the daughter at the reverend mrs giles don't you remember the woman who always scolded us for everything wouldn't let us even so much as take a turnip and she wore such pies looking spectacles that we dubbed her reverend mrs giles well she still is ida's mother then i don't blame either a bit i'd be eye to myself if i was brought up as she's been though i suppose her mother means all right it's curious what queer manners some people have but i dare say we all have our faults and with all of them i hope the girls love us still even ida added jack quickly now those others the beautiful robinson twins pursued ed oh yes well bess and belle are certainly the real thing in girls right up to the minute besides they have an immensely rich papa you've heard of him perry robinson the railroad king oh yes and their mother if one may be permitted to ask certainly fair sir their mother is a wonderfully handsome woman in a statuesque sort of way very dignified and all that now the twins are worthwhile exactly so answered ed now i think he stopped suddenly and quickly jerked up his rod but not quite speedily enough so he had the pleasure of seeing a fish slip wriggling off the hook biggest one today he moved as he adjusted some fresh bait now as to the robinson twins the only fault i have to find with them from my limited acquaintance is that they are not evenly divided this is uh well not to be too delicate about it too fat no no i beg of you exclaimed jack don't use that word say too much at opposed sounds like indisposed murmur dead but let it go with that bess is too much adipose and bell well she is too unadiposed if you like it better not to put to find a point upon it as mr snagsby used to say she's too thin not faults in either of them beyond repair commented jack cora is very keen about them thinks they're the best ever she is very much interested in them how about jack t's dead he might have a perfectly pardonable interest in being interested in the twins solely on his sister's account however solely and the part of his sister murmured jack that's neither here nor there to carry it a little further and still discussing the twins there is ed foster who is always at college when he is not fishing he has money to burn and so he's going to set fire to some of it by entrusting it to the new city bank not quite money to boon said ed as he carefully threw out the baited hook again i've about twenty thousand dollars that came from father's estate and it is stipulated that it must be most carefully secured i think the new bank a good investment but as for that being a drawing card in my favor why look to yourself here's jack kimball went on ed the best musician at...