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Title: Stories for little children
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Harriman, Susan S., comp
Subjects: Children's stories
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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AT GRANDPAS FARM And I can just hear him laugh when hefinds my tail feathers in the hedge, gobbledthe turkey. I put them there for him, tomake an Indian feather piece. S-s-s, hissed the geese; a coverlet ofdown from our breasts we gave i ??mm. I helped tomake his featherpillow, cackledthe speckled hen; and wait till he tastesmy eggs, freshly laid. There is a nest ofthem. I raised a family of ducklings for him toplay with, quacked the old mother duck.What more could one do for Thomas? Wee-ee-ee, squealed the little pink pig.I am very little now, but when I am big Ishall give him bristles from my back to makea hairbrush. Im going out now to watch forThomas. And away he went so fast that hebumped his nose against the gardener. Dont you root around in my garden,shouted the gardener. I am saving the nicest 73 STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN vegetables in the garden for Thomas. He iscoming to visit us to-day. Here I am this minute! said a merryvoice, and- -would you believe it?- -there
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stood Thomas, and the old sun was shiningright down on his freckles. Little pig followed him to the barnyardsquealing at the top of his shrill little voice,and shaking his little fat sides with joy. I cant begin to tell you all the fun they had.If you had been anywhere near, you wouldhave heard a happy little boy laughing andshouting, hens a-cackling, a wee calf bleating,turkeys gobbling, cows mooing, and a littlepiggys squeal high above them all. Oh, it wasa merry, merry day! Grandmother made Thomas the Indianfeather piece and he wore it all day long. Youshould have seen the old turkey strut around.She was so proud of Thomas and his feathers. 74 AT GRANDPAS FARM The yellow goslings swani in the pond for him.Do your best! said their mother. And youmay be sure they did, for Thomas clapped hishands and wished he could jump right in andswim with them. The mother cat carried all her babies by thenapes of their necks and put them down infront of Thomas. Then she washed them allclean with h

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