 ... of your life, but to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen ! Think, I beseech you, how you would like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards year after...  The Wesleyan juvenile offering - Page 46by Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1849Full view - About this book
 | 1894 - 264 pages
...for life in this dark closet, and wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do.' 3. ' Why,' said the dial, ' is there not a window in your house...through ? ' '.For all that,' resumed the pendulum, 'although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look out. Besides, I am really... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1897 - 330 pages
...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, wagging backwards and forwards year after year, as I do?" " As to that," said the dial, " is there not...purpose for you to look through?" "For all that," answered the pendulum, "it is very dark here ; and although there is a window, I dare not stop even... | |
 | Martin Grove Brumbaugh - Readers - 1899 - 408 pages
...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and wag backward and forward year after year as I do." " As to that," said the dial, " is there not...window in your house on purpose for you to look through f ' — " For all that," resumed the pendulum, " it is very dark here ; and, although there is a window,... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - Readers - 1900 - 400 pages
...shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards year after year, as I do." 4. "As to that," said the dial, "is there not a window in your house for you to look through ? " "For all that," resumed the pendulum, "it is very dark here, and although... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - Readers - 1903 - 268 pages
...be shut up all your life in this dark closet, and wag backwards and forwards year after year, as I do." "As to that," said the Dial, "is there not a window in your house for you to look through?" " For all that," replied the Pendulum, " it is very dark here. And if there... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Elocution - 1906 - 556 pages
...to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backward and forward, year after year, as I do." "As to that," said the dial, "is there not a...resumed the pendulum, "it is very dark here; and, altho there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look out at it. Besides, I am really... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Culture - 1906 - 552 pages
...to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backward and forward, year after year, as I do. " "As to that," said the dial, "is there not a...in your house on purpose for you to look through?" "I*or all that," resumed the pendulum, "it is very dark here; and, altho there is a window, I dare... | |
 | Joseph Henry Wade, Emma Sylvester - Readers - 1908 - 360 pages
...to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do ? " " As to that," said the dial, " is there not a window in your house for you to look through ? " " For all that," resumed the pendulum, " it is very dark here, and although... | |
 | Georgia Alexander - Readers - 1909 - 296 pages
...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet and wag backward and forward year after year as I do? The Dial. Is there not a window in your house on purpose for you to look through ? The Pendulum. For all that it is very dark here and although there is a window, I dare not stop even... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - Conduct of life - 1910 - 298 pages
...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and wag backward and forward year after year, as I do." "As to that," said the Dial, "is there not a...in your house on purpose for you to look through?" "But what of that?" resumed the Pendulum. "Although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an... | |
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