Pa brought me two pretty books full of pictures he got them in Alexandria they have pictures of dogs and cats and tigers and elefants and ever so many pretty things cousin bids me send you one of them it has a picture of an elefant and a little Indian... St. Nicholas - Page 685edited by - 1885Full view - About this book
| Benson John Lossing - Mount Vernon - 1870 - 460 pages
...(who then possessed the originals), and are as follows : EICHAED HENRT LEE TO GEORGE WASHINGTON. " Pa brought me two pretty books full of pictures he...of them it has a picture of an elefant and a little indian boy on his back like uncle jo's sam pa says if I learn my tasks good he will let uncle jo bring... | |
| Caroline Wells Healey Dall - Pictorial bindings - 1870 - 280 pages
...us read the letters," said Patty ; and she slowly spelt out the words that were on the paper : — "'Pa brought me two pretty books full of pictures...of them it has a picture of an elefant and a little indian boy on his back like uncle jo's sam. Pa says if I learn my tasks good he will let Uncle Jo bring... | |
| Benson John Lossing - Grottoes (Va.) - 1871 - 466 pages
...(who then possessed the originals), and are as follows : RICHARD HENRY LEE TO GEORGE WASHINGTON. " Pa brought me two pretty books full of pictures he...of them it has a picture of an elefant and a little indian boy on his back like nncle jo's sam pa says if I learn my tasks good he will let uncle jo bring... | |
| Benson John Lossing - Mount Vernon - 1870 - 456 pages
...Lee (who then possessed the originals), and are as follows : RICHARD HENRY LEE TO GEORGE WASHINGTON. "Pa brought me two pretty books full of pictures he...bids me send you one of them it has a picture of an elefarit and a little indian boy on his back like uncle jo's sam pa says if I learn my tasks good he... | |
| Benson John Lossing - Mount Vernon - 1871 - 458 pages
...Lee (who then possessed the originals), and are as follows: RICHAKD HENKT LEE TO GEOKGE WASHINGTON. "Pa brought me two pretty books full of pictures he...of them it has a picture of an elefant and a little indian boy on his back like uncle jo's sam pa says if I learn my tasks good he will let uncle jo bring... | |
| Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 pages
...the friends were about nine years old — still exist : — RICHARD HENRY LEE TO GEORGE WASHINGTON. "Pa brought me two pretty books full of pictures he...of them it has a picture of an elefant and a little indian boy on his back like uncle jo's sam pa says if I leam my tasks good he will let uncle jo bring... | |
| Conduct of life - 1877 - 436 pages
...nine years old, there being only a few weeks' difference between their ages. Little Lee wrote : " ' Pa brought me two pretty books full of pictures he got them in Alexandria they have pictures of dogs aud cats and tigers and elefants and ever so many pretty things cousin bids me send you one of them... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1885 - 506 pages
...attaining his majority, the apprentice is in every way fitted for general service as a man-ofwar's-man, and may serve — according to his choice — in any...they have pictures of dogs and cats and tigers and elcfants and ever so many pretty things cousin bids me send you one of them it has a picture of an... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 436 pages
...the misery of his biographer. The boy letters are these : FROM RICHARD H. LEE TO GEO. WASHINGTON. " Pa brought me two pretty books full of pictures he...of them it has a picture of an elefant and a little Indian boy on his back like uncle jo's sam pa says if I learn my tasks good he will let uncle jo bring... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1889 - 286 pages
...correspondence, written when they were nine years old : — " RICHARD HENRY LEE TO GEOBGE WASHINGTON : " Pa brought me two pretty books full of pictures he...of them it has a picture of an elefant and a little Indian boy on his back like uncle jo's sam pa says if I learn my tasks good he will let uncle jo bring... | |
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