 ... 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
 | Grenville Kleiser - Elocution - 1911 - 458 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...that," 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... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath, George Hodges, Edward Lawrence Stevens - Readers - 1912 - 312 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...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 one... | |
 | Pauline Frost Rafter - Readers - 1912 - 316 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?" said the Pendulum. " Although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for a moment... | |
 | Children's stories, American - 1912 - 200 pages
...(interrupting). Fifty! It makes me tired only to think about it. FACE. As for being shut up, have n't you a window in your house on purpose for you to look through ? PENDULUM. Yes, but much good it does me. I dare not stop even for an instant to look out. I just... | |
 | Augustus Hill Kelley - Readers - 1914 - 472 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 a...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... | |
 | Anna H. Carter - Readers - 1914 - 360 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 a...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... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - English language - 1916 - 372 pages
...like 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 window in your house, ort purpose for you to look through?" "For all that," resumed the pendulum, "it is very dark here;... | |
 | Augustus Hill Kelley - 1917 - 472 pages
...to be shut up for life in this dark closet, wagging backwards and forwards year after year, as Ido?" "As to that," said the dial, "is there not a window...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 for... | |
 | John Gilbert Thompson, Inez Bigwood - Readers - 1917 - 232 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 ?" "But what of that?" went on the Pendulum. "Although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for... | |
 | Georgine Burchill, William Louis Ettinger, Edgar Dubs Shimer - Readers - 1919 - 280 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 a...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... | |
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