The Project Gutenberg eBook, Fun And Frolic, by Various, Edited by E. T. Roe

Title: Fun And Frolic

Author: Various

Release Date: February 29, 2004 [eBook #11374]

Language: English

Character set encoding: US-ASCII

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FUN AND FROLIC***

FUN AND FROLIC PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. EDITED BY E. T. ROE

CONTENTS.

GRANDMOTHER'S CHAIR.
HOW GRANDMA SURPRISED ELSIE.
GOING TO BED.
THE CAT AND THE PARROT.
BABY.
THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER.
FUN FOR THE KITTENS.
TOMMY GREEN AND TOMMY RED.
FOND OF CATS.
THE CAT'S QUESTIONS.
"SCRAMBLE."
CLEVER GOATS.
KING LEAR.
THE BRITISH MASTIFFS.
ON THE LAKES IN A STORM.
FRITZ.
NAUGHTY WILLIE.
NED BENTLY'S TEMPTATION.
"HODGE."
APRIL FOOL.
IN A STORM ON THE SEA.
THE JAGUAR.
MILITARY DOGS.
TRUE TO HIS WORD.
HUNTING A LION.
PURSUED BY INDIANS.
THE TRUANT'S SOLILOQUY
A QUEER FISH.
A PROUD MONARCH.
BABY'S ANSWERS.
DEAR LITTLE BROWN-EYED BESS.

GRANDMOTHER'S CHAIR.

Grandmother sits in her easy chair
Softly humming some old-time air;
And as she sings, her needles keep pace
With the smiles that flit o'er her wrinkled face;
While the fire-light flickers, and fades away,
And comes again like the breaking day.

From morning till evening she knits and sings,
While ever the pendulum tireless swings
The moments around, with its tick and stroke,
Nor hastes for the festal, nor lags for the yoke.
And grandmother never repines at her fate
Of being the last at the "Crystal Gate."

Husband, and daughters, and sons all there,
Wearing the "crown and the garments fair"
Singing the songs that will never tire,
And swelling the chorus of heaven's choir;
But patiently, hopefully, bides the time
That shall bring her at last to a fairer clime.