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The boy John was sitting on the wharf, watching the ebb of the tide. The current was swift, for there had been heavy rains within a few days; the river was full of drifting logs, bits of bark, odds and ends of various kinds; the water, usually so blue, looked brown and thick. It swirled round the great mossy piers, making eddies between them; from time to time the boy dropped bits of paper into these eddies, and saw with delight how they spun round and round, like living things, and finally gave up the struggle and were borne away down stream. "Only, in the real maelstrom," he said, "they don't be carried away; they go over the edge, down into the black hole, whole ships and ships, and you never see them again. I wonder where they stop, or whether it goes through to the other side of the world."
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What's all these motions I hear of up to Calvin's? Asked Eph Peters.
Si the storekeeper leaned back against his shelves and adjusted the straw between his teeth. Ructions? He repeated; what kind of motions? Anything new?
New enough to me! Said Eph. What's he got up there? A hospital, or an asylum, or what?
How long have you been in Oregon? Ten years? Well! You see, Ephraim ten years is quite a spell; time enough for a considerable deal to happen. In a hurry, ain't ye? Well, then, set down a spell and I'll tell you about it fur as I know.
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The Silver Crown Another Book of Fables: Large Print By Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "And shall I be a king?" asked the child, "and shall I wear a crown?" "You shall surely wear a crown," said the Angel, "and a kingdom is waiting for you." "Oh, joy!" said the child. "But tell me, how will it come about? for now I am only a little child, and the crown would hardly stay on my curls." "Nay! that I may not tell," said the Angel. "Only ride and run your best, for the way is long to your kingdom, and the time short." So the child rode and ran his best, crossing hills and valleys, broad streams and foaming torrents. Here and there he saw people at work or at play, and on these he looked eagerly. "Perhaps, when they see me," he said, "they will run to meet me, and will crown me with a golden crown, and lead me to their palace and throne me there as king!" But the folk were all busy with their tasks or their sport, and none heeded him, or left their business for him; and still he must fare forward alone, for the Way called him. Also, he came upon many travellers like himself, some coming toward him, others passing him by. On these, too, he looked earnestly, and would stop now one, now another, and question him. "Do you know," he asked, "of any kingdom in these parts where the crown is ready and the folk wait for a king?" Then one would laugh, and another weep, and another jeer, but all alike shook their heads. "I am seeking crown and kingdom for myself," cried one; "is it likely that I can be finding one for you, too? Each one for himself, and the Way for all!" We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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Five Minute Stories (Works of Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards Book 3)
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Betty 15
Two Calls 16
A New Year Son...)
Dedication vii
Betty 15
Two Calls 16
A New Year Song 19
New Year 20
A Lesson Song 24
The Rubber Baby ' 26
The Red, "White and Blue 28
Totty's Christmas ....... 29
A Certain Boy . 32
The New Sister 33
Buttercup Gold 35
One Afternoon 42
The Stove 43
John's Sister 44
New Year Song 45
What Was Her Name 46
A Lesson Song 49
The Patient Cat 52
Mathematics 53
By the Fading Light 55
Tobogganing Song 58
Song of the Tilt 59
The Lazy Robin 60
The Boy's Manners 62
Merry Christmas ........... 66
Rinktum 67
In the Tunnel 69
X CONTENTS
Practising Song 71
Queen Elizabeth's Dance 72
A Storming Party 74
At the Little Boy's Home 75
Then and Now 76
Pleasant Walt 78
A Great Day 80
A Pastoral 82
Riches 84
Poverty 85
The Best of All 87
A Study Hour 89
The Young Ladies 90
The Weathercock 92
Ichthyology 93
A Happy Morning 98
Lilies and Cat>Tails 99
The Metals 104
The Howlery Growlery Room 109
The Speckled Hen ' 113
The Money Shop 116
A Long Afternoon 121
The Jacket 122
The Fireworks 124
Jingle 126
See-Saw 127
Nancy's Nightmare 129
Amy's Valentine 131
Once Upon a Time 133
The Pathetic Ballad of Clarinthia Jane Louisa 134
A Day in the Country 135
Goosey Lucy 136
Goosey Lucy's New Year's Calls 139
Three Little Birds 142
The Quacky Duck 143
New Year Thoughts 144
Nonsense 145
The Singular Chicken 147
CONTENTS XI
The Clever Parson 148
The Purple Fish 155
Mr. Somebody 157
A Christmas Ride 159
A Funny Fellow 161
Woffsky-Poffsky : 162
April and the Children 163
The Snowball 165
A Great Fight 168
Hallelujah! 171
Lullaby 172
Merry Christmas 173
The Little Dog with the Green Tail 175
Naughty 180
Hard Times 180
On the Steeple 183
Naughty Billy 184
A Lad 184
Saint Valentine's House 185
The Gentleman 18 7
A Leap Year Boy 190
King Pippin 193
The Story of the Crimson Crab 194
Mother's Riddle 196
King John 197
The Spotty Cow 198
The Button Pie 199
The Inquisitive Ducks 200
Queen Matilda . . 202
The Two-Shoes Chair 203
Ethelred the Unready 205
Poor Bonny 205
The Husking of the Corn 209
The Clever Cheese-Maker 211
The Spelling Lesson . 214
The Person who Did Not Like Cats 216
Two Noble Lives: Samuel Gridley Howe, Julia Ward Howe
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"Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Her sister married a minister, and her father was a deacon, so mebbe she thinks she's got a master-key to the Kingdom. But I don't feel so sure of her gettin' this minister for Rose Ellen. Some say he's so wropped up in his garden truck that he don't know a gal from a gooseberry bush. He! he!" The shrill cackle was answered by a slow, unctuous chuckle, as of a fat and wheezy person; then a door was closed, and silence fell. The minister looked up apprehensively; his fair face was flushed, and his mild, blue eyes looked troubled. He gazed at the broad back of his landlady, as she stood dusting, with minute care, the china ornaments on the mantelpiece; but her back gave no sign. He coughed once or twice; he said, "Mrs. Mellen!" tentatively, first low, then in his ordinary voice, but there was no reply. Was Mrs. Mellen deaf? he had not noticed it before. He pondered distressfully for a few moments; then dropped his eyes, and the book swallowed him again. Yet the sting remained, for when presently the figure at the mantelpiece turned round, he looked up hastily, and flushed again as he met his hostess' gaze, calm and untroubled as a summer pool. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richard was an American writer.
Background
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards was born on February 27, 1850 in Boston, Massachussets, the third daughter and fourth child among the four daughters and two sons of Julia (Ward) and Samuel Gridley Howe. Her mother gained renown as the author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and was later active in the suffrage and woman's club movements; her father was a physician who fought in the Greek war of independence and then, returning to Boston, for many years headed the Perkins Institution for the Blind. Young Laura, named for her father's most famous pupil, the blind deaf-mute Laura Bridgman, grew up in a well-to-do, fun-loving family of broad intellectual interests and philanthropic concerns. Reading, music, and her mother's singing of folk songs and ballads were an integral part of her childhood.
Education
She was educated at home by her parents and tutors and at private schools in Boston, and at the age of seventeen traveled in Europe with her parents.
Career
During the depression of 1876 her husband gave up his Boston architectural practice and settled in Gardiner, Maine (the town of his birth), where he helped manage the family paper mill. Gardiner remained the Richardses' home for the rest of their lives. Mrs. Richards had been writing since childhood, but her professional career began only after the birth of her first child, when she started composing jingles and nonsense rhymes, many of them as nursery songs.
Beginning in 1873, St. Nicholas magazine published a number of these, such as the tale of "The Owl, the Eel, and the Warming Pan, " who joyfully turned a meeting-house upside down, and "Little John Bottlejohn, " who married a mermaid. In these verses, some of which are reminiscent of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, talking animals and eccentric human beings disport themselves amid delightful nonsense words and impeccable rhythms. These and other poems, including "The Seven Little Tigers and the Aged Cook, " appeared in Mrs. Richards's Sketches & Scraps (1881), illustrated by her husband.
The first book of nonsense verse to be written by an American and published in the United States, it brought fame to its author, whose earnings were a welcome supplement to her husband's income. Later collections included In My Nursery (1890), The Hurdy-Gurdy (1902), and The Piccolo (1906). As her children emerged from infancy, Mrs. Richards began to make up stories to suit their developing needs. In her first published collection, Five Mice in a Mouse-Trap (1881), the Man in the Moon tells a series of stories whose characters are children of various lands and personified animals who often get into ludicrous predicaments.
The tales were written in strong, simple English with a marked sense of humor; many were illustrated by the English artist Kate Greenaway. Among the books of this period were The Joyous Story of Toto (1885) and Toto's Merry Winter (1887), tales of a small boy who lives with his grandmother at the edge of a forest.
With Queen Hildegarde (1889), Mrs. Richards produced the first of her books for young girls. Sequels made up a Hildegarde series, and Three Margarets (1897) also had its successors. Perhaps her most popular book for girls was Captain January (1890), the story of a Maine lighthouse keeper who rescues an infant girl from a shipwreck and brings her up.
A best seller, the book was twice made into a movie. Once her children were grown, Mrs. Richards broadened the scope of her writing, publishing juvenile biographies of Florence Nightingale (1909), Abigail Adams (1917), and others. Several New England novels, such as Mrs. Tree (1902) and The Wooing of Calvin Parks (1908), reveal her appreciation of the quirks of Yankee character and idiom.
Probably her most enduring works, aside from the nonsense verse, are the books relating to her parents.
She spent many years in editing her father's papers, published in the two-volume Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe (1906 - 09). Two Noble Lives (1911) portrayed both her parents; and she collaborated with her sister Maud Howe Elliott on Julia Ward Howe (1915), which won a Pulitzer Prize. Mrs. Richards also published two books of fables "for young and old, " The Golden Windows (1903) and The Silver Crown (1906), which she regarded as her best work.
During a writing career that produced more than seventy books Laura Richards found time to take an active part in the civic and philanthropic activities of Gardiner. She helped establish the town library, organized children's reading clubs, supported public health projects, and served as president of the Maine Consumers' League (1905 - 11).
In 1900 she and her husband founded Camp Merryweather, one of the first summer camps for boys. She befriended and encouraged the young poet Edwin Arlington Robinson and in her later years enjoyed an extensive literary correspondence with Alexander Woollcott and other noted writers of the day. Mrs. Richards never stopped writing, and her joy in life remained undiminished.
Tirra Lirra (1932), which appeared when she was eighty-two, collected many of her best published verses along with some freshly composed pieces that were as lighthearted and amusing as any of her earliest. The previous year she published Stepping Westward, a warm evocation of memories of her childhood and of her own domestic life.
She died of pneumonia at her home in her ninety-third year, and was buried in Christ Church Yard in Gardiner.
Achievements
She wrote more than 90 books including biographies, poetry, and several for children. One well-known children's poem is her literary nonsense verse "Eletelephony".
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Religion
She was deeply religious in the nonsectarian tradition of the Unitarian Church, and these tales exemplify the ethical convictions that underlay all her work.
Connections
On June 17, 1871, she was married to the architect Henry Richards, a Harvard classmate of her brother Henry. They had seven children.
