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What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: Dream DaysUser Review - Jennifer - GoodreadsI only bought these Kenneth Grahame books for the Maxfield Parrish illustrations (not the books pictured). The stories aren't that great. Read full review Review: Dream DaysUser Review - Rauf - GoodreadsBloody hell, this book is shiny! Some pieces are stronger than the other...I love "The Magic Ring", "A Saga of the Sea", "The Reluctant Dragon" and "A Departure". Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesarmour-man asked aunt beast beautiful began black puma blue blue scales bo'sun boat brigantine cabin captain's gig cave Charlotte cheering chocolate circus clothes coloured Coralie corner course crew crowd cutlass dear door dragon dream Edward everything eyes fellow felt fight fire fresh frigate funny gamboge garden George guns hair hand happy Harold head heard hero hint horse Irish terrier KENNETH GRAHAME knew legs Leotard looked ment mind morning never nice night Noah's Ark once perhaps pink ship pirate play pleasant Polar bears Potiphar Princess quietly replied road round Saint San Salvador scruff seemed Selina shout shrill side sitting sort of thing spear sticks stood story strange strolled suppose sure swung talk tell there's thought tion told took Trafalgar Day village walk Popular passagesPage 199 - I've got such an active mind — always occupied, I assure you ! But time went on, and there was a certain sameness about the life, and at last I began to think it would be fun to work my way upstairs and see what you other fellows were doing. So I scratched and burrowed, and worked this way and that way and at last I came out through this cave here. And I like the country, and the view, and the people — what I've seen of 'em — and on the whole I feel inclined to settle down here. Page 191 - He was sticking half-way out of the cave, and seemed to be enjoying of the cool of the evening in a poetical sort of way. He was as big as four cart-horses, and all covered with shiny scales — deep-blue scales at the top of him, shading off to a tender sort o' green below. As he breathed, there was that sort of flicker over his nostrils that you see over our chalk roads on a baking windless day in summer. He had his chin on his paws, and I should say he was meditating about things. Oh, yes, a peaceable... Page 47 - I always expected it of you, sooner or later ; but the die is cast, and you may go home again and bewail at your leisure this too tardy repentance of yours. For me, I am vowed and dedicated, and my relations henceforth are austerity and holy works. Once a month, should you wish it, it shall be your privilege to come and gaze at me through this very solid grating ; but " Whack! A well-aimed clod of garden soil, whizzing just past my ear, starred on a tree-trunk behind, spattering me with dirt. The... Page 216 - I came down the street just now, and they were betting six to four on the dragon freely!' 'Six to four on the dragon!' murmured St. George sadly, resting his cheek on his hand. 'This is an evil world, and sometimes I begin to think that all the wickedness in it is not entirely bottled up inside the dragons. And yet — may not this wily beast have misled you as to his real character, in order that your good report of him may serve as a cloak for his evil deeds? Nay, may there not be, at this very... Page 205 - ... and win deathless fame; and each night's heated discussion always ended in nothing. Meanwhile the dragon, a happy Bohemian, lolled on the turf, enjoyed the sunsets, told antediluvian anecdotes to the Boy, and polished his old verses while meditating on fresh ones. One day the Boy, on walking into the village, found everything wearing a festal appearance which was not to be accounted for in the calendar. Carpets and gay-coloured stuffs were hung out of the windows, the church-bells clamoured noisily,... Page 217 - I've been over-credulous," said St George. "Perhaps I've misjudged the animal. But what are we to do? Here are the dragon and I, almost face to face, each supposed to be thirsting for each other's blood. I don't see any way out of it, exactly. What do you suggest? Can't you arrange things, somehow?" "That's just what the dragon said," replied the Boy, rather nettled. Page 205 - ... freed from this pest, this terror, this destroying scourge. The fact that not even a hen-roost was the worse for the dragon's arrival wasn't allowed to have anything to do with it. He was a dragon, and he couldn't deny it, and if he didn't choose to behave as such that was his own look-out. But in spite of much valiant talk no hero was found willing to take sword and spear and free the suffering village and win deathless fame ; and each night's heated discussion always ended in nothing. Meanwhile... Page 193 - cos I do know," replied the Boy quietly. "Look here, father, you know we've each of us got our line. Tou know about sheep, and weather, and things; / know about dragons. I always said, you know, that that cave up there was a dragon-cave. I always said it must have belonged to a dragon some time, and ought to belong to a dragon now, if rules count for anything. Well, now you tell me it has got a dragon, and so that's all right. I'm not half as much surprised as when you told me it hadn't got a dragon.... Page 245 - P'raps it's true for all that," I replied encouragingly. Charlotte bolted in like a rabbit, out of the cold and the dark; but I lingered a moment in the still, frosty air, for a backward glance at the silent white world without, ere I changed it for the land of firelight and cushions and laughter. It was the day for choir-practice, and carol-time was at hand, and a belated member was passing homewards down the road, singing as he went: Then St George: ee made rev'rence: in the stable so dim, Oo vanquished... Page 213 - Exactly,' said St. George, smiling pleasantly, 'I quite understand. A good dragon. Believe me, I do not in the least regret that he is an adversary worthy of my steel, and no feeble specimen of his noxious tribe.' 'But he's not a noxious tribe,' cried the Boy distressedly. 'Oh dear, oh dear, how stupid men are when they get an idea into their heads! I tell you he's a good dragon, and a friend of mine, and tells me the most beautiful stories you ever heard, all about old times and when he was little.... References from web pagesDream Days - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dream Days, by Kenneth Grahame - Full Text Free Book (Part 3/3) Dream Days by Grahame, Kenneth - Chapter 8 Dream Days, Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932 - mobilebooks, 20000+ e ... librivox » Dream Days, by Kenneth Grahame Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame - Free ebook Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame. Search, Read, Study, Discuss. Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame: Babblebooks Audiobook Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame download and read ebook Dream Days for free by author Kenneth Grahame Bibliographic information
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