"“A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.” "
Kollane Ö: added this to a list 4 months, 3 weeks ago
“Funny. so funny. I want to laugh again by reading it. And I bet, you will laugh too. Recently, I was listening to audio book. That is also damn good.” read more
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"Excluded from the children’s room in the Brooklyn, N.Y. Public Library (1876) and the Denver, Colo. Public Library (1876). Confiscated at the USSR border (1930). "