THE SINGING, SOARING LARK.
“I have seen the white dove, it has flown to the Red Sea, there it has become a lion again, for the seven years are over, and the lion is there fighting with a dragon; the dragon, however, is an enchanted princess.”
Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
Translated from the German By Margaret Hunt.
Illustrated By John B. Gruelle.
Cupples and Leon Company: New York. Ca 1914.
THE EDGE OF TOWN
The grape-arbor with its cool green leaves and long twisty vines and roots was an ideal place to play Dragon in. If you stretched your imagination just a little bit you could find fierce and fiery Dragons in the scaly gnarled roots of the vines.
Billy Popgun.
Written and Illustrated by Milo Winter.
Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston & New York. 1912.
“THE BUMBLE DRAGON”
All at once he came to an open place with huge rocks in it, and right in the middle lay an enormous Dragon.
He was sound asleep and snoring in a low rumble, every now and then coming to a very loud snort, and mumbling afterward.
Billy took a good long look at him. His body looked like a gigantic lizard with a long snake’s tail. His large webbed feet had claws like an eagle. But his head! Oh! What a funny head he had. It looked like a cow’s head, only there were scales on it, and a lion’s mane, and dog’s ears. Billy was just beginning to wonder why he was called a Bumble Dragon when he saw the great transparent wings of a Bumble Bee folded over his back.
From the Story “THE BUMBLE DRAGON”
Billy Popgun
Written and Illustrated by Milo Winter.
Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston & New York. 1912.
“New Year’s Day, China”
Pitter, patter, through the street,
Cling-a-ling, long;
Fire crackers, children,
And lantern song.
February’s rather late –
Bim-a-bam, bin! –
But the bells are bringing
The new year in.
Kids of Many Colors
By Grace Duffie Boylan and Ike Morgan
Hurst and Company Publishers: New York. 1909.
“New Year’s Day, China”
Pitter, patter, through the street,
Cling-a-ling, long;
Fire crackers, children,
And lantern song.
February’s rather late –
Bim-a-bam, bin! –
But the bells are bringing
The new year in.
Kids of Many Colors
By Grace Duffie Boylan and Ike Morgan
Hurst and Company Publishers: New York. 1909.
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