What Sami Sings with the Birds

Johanna Spyri

BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PRINTED BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY ...

Johanna Spyri

ILLUSTRATIONS Up the Mountain to Grandfather (_color_) FRONTISPIECE Heidi Tenderly Stroked the Two Goats in Turn 27 Heidi Drank in the Golden Sunlight, the Fresh Air and the Sweet...

Johanna Spyri

CHAPTER FIRST OLD MARY ANN For three days the Spring sun had been shining out of a clear sky and casting a gleaming, golden coverlet over the blue waters of Lake Geneva.

Johanna Spyri

The golden sunshine of a glorious June morning flooded the roses of the beautiful garden that surrounded a handsome stone villa on the banks of the Rhine.

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.