“Those who are alive, especially kids and baby animals, play and run and laugh and think that it is fun to discover everything. It’s not very common for people to die when they are young. But sometimes it does happen.”
“You will have to arrange things so I can go for a run. My legs are growing shorter, I am sure, with not exercising them. I shall have forgotten how to walk by the end of the week.”
″ ‘Grandmamma, what great arms you have got!’
‘That is the better to hug thee, my dear’
‘Grandmama, what great legs you have got!’
‘That is to run the better, my child’
‘Grandmamma, what great ears you have got!’
‘That is to hear the better, my child’
‘Grandmamma, what great eyes you have got!’
‘It is to see the better, my child’. ”
“Yukin ran faster than he had ever run before. He had chosen his escape route carefully. Here the ground sloped towards the white water of the Kredish River Gorge. If he could outrun the hunter birds and make it to the river, he would be free.”
“I live down at the end of the hall. Sometimes I take two sticks and skidder them along the walls
And when I run down the hall I slomp my feet agains the woodwork which is very good for scuffing and noise
Sometimes I slomp my skates if I want to make a really loud and terrible racket.”
“I want you to let Caddie run wild with the boys. Don’t keep her in the house learning to be a lady. I would rather see her learn to plow than make samplers, if she can get her health by doing so. I believe it is worth trying. Bring the other girls up as you like, but let me have Caddie.”
“Then, because she was so frightened and ashamed, Katie Morag did a silly thing. She ran the rest of the way to the other side of the Bay and threw a parcel - any parcel, except the red-labelled one - on to the doorstep of each of the first four houses. Nobody saw her. ”
“Street Show
Puff, puff, puff. How the trumpets blow
All you little boys and girls come and see the show.
One-two-three, the Cat runs up the tree;
But the little Bird he flies away-
‘She hasn’t got me!’ ”
“On the Wall Top
So high- so high on the wall we run,
The nearer the sky- why, the nearer the sun,
If you give me one penny, I’ll give you two,
For that’s the way good neighbours do.”