 Dear Dickey, I thank you very much for the pretty picture book you gave me. Sam asked me to show him the pictures and I showed him all the pictures in it; and I read to him how the tame Elephant took care of the master's little boy, and put him on his...  On the Way, Or, Patty at Mount Vernon - Page 45by Caroline Wells Healey Dall - 1870 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - America - 1904 - 288 pages
...George Washington to Richard Henry Lee : "Dear Dickey, I thank you very much for the pretty picture-book you gave me. Sam asked me to show him the pictures...little boy, and put him on his back and would not let anybody touch his master's little son. I can read three or four pages sometimes without missing a word.... | |
 | Sarah E. Sprague - Readers - 1906 - 396 pages
...gave me. Sam asked me to show him the pictures, and I showed him all the pictures in it; and I read him how the tame elephant took care of the Master's...little boy, and put him on his back and would not let anybody touch his Master's little son. " I can read three or four pages sometimes without missing a... | |
 | Alice B. Macdonald - English language - 1911 - 630 pages
..."formidable"? Subjects for written composition. To Uot letter Washington aent the following reply:— "Dear Dickey I thank you very much for the pretty...little boy, and put him on his back and would not let anybody touch his master's little son. I can read three or four pages sometimes without miamng a word.... | |
 | Rosalie Vrylina Halsey - Children - 1911 - 316 pages
...see you will you ask your ma to let you come to see me. RICHARD HENRY LEE. [G. Washington to RH Lee] DEAR DICKEY — I thank you very much for the pretty...little boy, and put him on his back and would not let anybody touch his master's little son. I can read three or four pages some[28] times without missing... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 848 pages
...will you ask your ma to let you come to see me "RICHARD HENRY LEE." (To which this is the answer:) " Dear Dickey, I thank you very much for the pretty...little boy, and put him on his back and would not let anybody touch his master's little son. I can read three or four pages sometimes without missing a word.... | |
 | James Baldwin, Ida Catherine Bender - Readers - 1911 - 270 pages
...let you come to see me ? II. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S REPLY Dear Dickey : I thank you very much for the picture book you gave me. Sam asked me to show him...little boy, and put him on his back and would not let anybody touch his master's little son. I can read three or four pages sometimes without missing a word.... | |
 | James Baldwin, Ida Catherine Bender, Ida C. Bender - Readers - 1911 - 272 pages
...let you come to see me ? II. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S REPLY Dear Dickey : I thank you very much for the picture book you gave me. Sam asked me to show him...little boy, and put him on his back and would not let anybody touch his master's little son. I can read three or four pages sometimes without missing a word.... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1914 - 284 pages
...picture-book you gave me. Sam asked me to show him the pictures and I showed him all the pic* tures in it ; and I read to him how the tame elephant took...little boy, and put him on his back and would not let anybody touch his master's little son. I can read three or four pages sometimes without missing a word.... | |
 | Effie Belle McFadden - English language - 1915 - 292 pages
...picture book you gave me. Sam asked me to show him the pictures and I showed him all the pictures in it. I read to him how the tame elephant took care of the...little boy, and put him on his back and would not let anybody touch his master's little son. I can read three or four pages sometimes without missing a word.... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Presidents - 1918 - 294 pages
...ten, to this friend. If he wrote it he must have had help from an older and wiser head than his own: "DEAR DICKEY: I thank you very much for the pretty...little boy, and put him on his back and would not let anybody touch his master's little son. I can read three or four pages sometimes without missing a word.... | |
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