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    Phebe, the Blackberry Girl
    Phebe, the Blackberry Girl
    Phebe, the Blackberry Girl
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    Phebe, the Blackberry Girl

    By Edward Livermore

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Phebe, the Blackberry Girl - Edward Livermore

      Project Gutenberg's Phebe, The Blackberry Girl, by Edward Livermore

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Phebe, The Blackberry Girl

      Author: Edward Livermore

      Release Date: February 18, 2004 [EBook #11147]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PHEBE, THE BLACKBERRY GIRL ***

      Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Children; Samuel Thompson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      UNCLE THOMAS' STORIES FOR GOOD CHILDREN

      PHEBE, THE BLACKBERRY GIRL.

      [Illustration]

      EDWARD LIVERMORE. WORCESTER.

      UNCLE THOMAS'S STORIES FOR GOOD CHILDREN

      [Illustration: UNCLE THOMAS.]

      PHEBE, THE BLACKBERRY GIRL.

      [Illustration]

      1850.

      INTRODUCTION.

      Uncle Thomas's Stories for Good Children.

      The design of this series of unpretending little books, is, to give to the Young information, joined with amusement.

      They are prepared for young children, and if, from the reading of these stories, they acquire a love for good books, the compiler's object will be accomplished.

      [Illustration]

      CONTENTS

      THE BLACKBERRY GIRL, PART I.

      THE BLACKBERRY GIRL, PART II.

      GOOD CHILDREN

      POOR CRAZY ROBERT

      THE PET LAMB

      FATHER WILLIAM AND THE YOUNG MAN

      THE LITTLE GIRL AND HER PETS

      THE FLOWERS

      THE CHILD AND THE FLOWERS

      ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE

      WASHING AND DRESSING

      THE INDUSTRIOUS BOY

      WE ARE SEVEN

      THE IDLE BOY

      CASABLANCA

      TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR

      [Illustration: Phebe, the Blackberry Girl]

      THE BLACKBERRY GIRL.

      PART I.

      "Why, Phebe, are you come so soon,

        Where are your berries, child?

      You cannot, sure, have sold them all,

        You had a basket pil'd."

      "No, mother, as I climb'd the fence,

        The nearest way to town,

      My apron caught upon a stake,

        And so I tumbled down."

      "I scratched my arm, and tore my hair,

        But still did not complain;

      And had my blackberries been safe,

        Should not have cared a grain.

      [Illustration: Phebe and her Mother.]

      "But when I saw them on the ground

        All scattered by my side,

      I pick'd my empty basket up,

        And down I sat and cried.

      "Just then a pretty little Miss

        Chanced to be walking by;

      She stopp'd,

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