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The Boys and Girls Library

The Boys and Girls Library

by Samuel G. Goodrich

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Editor
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860
Title
The Boys' And Girls' Library Containing a Variety of Useful and Instructive Reading, Selected from Eminent Writers for Youth
Credits
Jason Isbell, Andrew Wainwright and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The University of Florida, The Internet Archive/Children's Library)
Language
English
LoC Class
PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
Category
Text
eBook-No.
35149
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35149
Release Date
February 4, 2011
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE BOYS AND GIRLS LIBRARY
  2. 2.CONTENTS.
  3. 3.CHILDHOOD.
  4. 4.THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW YEAR
  5. 5.THE STORY OF EDWARD LYON; — OR, CONFESSING A FAULT.
  6. 6.TO MY GOOD ANGEL.
  7. 7.SELF-DENIAL.
  8. 8.HENRY AND HIS SISTER.
  9. 9.ANNA AND HER KITTEN.
  10. 10.FAITHFULNESS; — OR, THE STORY OF THE BIRD’S NEST. — TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.
  11. 11.THE GREAT MAN. — WRITTEN FOR VERY YOUNG READERS.
  12. 12.PHILOSOPHY AT HOME. — THE AIR THERMOMETER.
  13. 13.THE RABBIT. — A STORY FOR LITTLE READERS.
  14. 14.THE SLEIGH RIDE.
  15. 15.STORY OF A GREYHOUND.
  16. 16.THE TRUANT.
  17. 17.A SUMMER MORNING RAMBLE.
  18. 18.THE HOTTENTOTS.
  19. 19.PHILOSOPHY AT HOME. — THE WHISPERING FIGURE. — ILLUSTRATING THE PROPAGATION OF SOUNDS.
  20. 20.STORY OF THE SEA.
  21. 21.THE OLD SLATE.
  22. 22.CHILDREN.
  23. 23.LIZZY; A FAIRY TALE.
  24. 24.ELLEN. — A TRUE STORY.
  25. 25.PHILOSOPHY IN COMMON THINGS. — CORKING THE KETTLE SPOUT UP.
  26. 26.THE LOST CHILDREN. — A TRUE STORY.
  27. 27.FORGIVENESS.
  28. 28.THE TWO NOSEGAYS.
  29. 29.CAMGNO; OR, THE TAME ROE. — A TRUE STORY.
  30. 30.THE SECRET.
  31. 31.SCIENCE OF THE HUMAN FRAME. — THE SKIN.
  32. 32.VOICES FROM NATURE.
  33. 33.KING ALFRED.
  34. 34.GRACE MIDDLETON.
  35. 35.SHELLS.
  36. 36.EMULATION. — A CONVERSATION BETWEEN HENRY AND HIS FATHER.
  37. 37.A NURSE’S SONG.
  38. 38.THE SHEPHERD AND THE FAIRY.
  39. 39.SIMPLE PLEASURES.
  40. 40.THE ROBIN’S “GOOD BYE” TO LITTLE ARAMINTA.
  41. 41.THE BABY-HOUSE.
  42. 42.FIDELITY AND OBEDIENCE.
  43. 43.BESSIE LEE.
  44. 44.THE STARS.—ORION.
  45. 45.THE APPLE.
  46. 46.THE NEW SINGING SCHOOL.
  47. 47.THE BALLOON.
  48. 48.CURIOUS LITTLE PAINTERS.
  49. 49.THE UPAS, OR POISON TREE.
  50. 50.DISOBEDIENCE, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
  51. 51.THE GAME OF WEATHERCOCKS.
  52. 52.JAMES CARTIER. — AN EARLY TRAVELLER IN AMERICA.
  53. 53.ANSELMO’S ESCAPE; — OR, THE DOG SAINT BERNARD.
  54. 54.TO MY BOY TOM, — ON GIVING HIM HIS FIRST SPELLING-BOOK.
  55. 55.SECOND STORY OF THE SEA.
  56. 56.THE CHILD AT PRAYER.
  57. 57.THE CHILD ANGEL.
  58. 58.THE STORM.
  59. 59.SOMETHING ABOUT DOGS.
  60. 60.THE MORNING WALK.
  61. 61.THE OSTRICH
  62. 62.THE VIOLET.—MODESTY.
  63. 63.THE ELEPHANT.
  64. 64.Transcriber's Notes

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