Crackers for ChristmasMacmillan and Company, 1870 - 352 pages |
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... followed , however , by another person . This was a little old woman , not much more than four feet high , and exactly as broad as she was tall . She might have been mortal , and she might have been anything else . The thought crossed ...
... followed , however , by another person . This was a little old woman , not much more than four feet high , and exactly as broad as she was tall . She might have been mortal , and she might have been anything else . The thought crossed ...
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... followed our parent . She stopped for a moment at the edge of the plantation , and we all cast a lingering look of regret back upon our old home . Ah me ! shall I ever see it again ? I can see it now in my mind's eye - just as it was ...
... followed our parent . She stopped for a moment at the edge of the plantation , and we all cast a lingering look of regret back upon our old home . Ah me ! shall I ever see it again ? I can see it now in my mind's eye - just as it was ...
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... followed her in hot pursuit . I congratulated myself upon Pussy's escape , and was full of hope and con- fidence , if she would only keep inside the fern , when , lo ! a new event froze my heart within my bosom . The other hounds ...
... followed her in hot pursuit . I congratulated myself upon Pussy's escape , and was full of hope and con- fidence , if she would only keep inside the fern , when , lo ! a new event froze my heart within my bosom . The other hounds ...
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... followed , a loud report , and half - way across the track my parent fell head over heels , and lay lifeless upon her back , her elegant limbs quivering in death , her sorrows and sufferings over for ever . All this passed in an instant ...
... followed , a loud report , and half - way across the track my parent fell head over heels , and lay lifeless upon her back , her elegant limbs quivering in death , her sorrows and sufferings over for ever . All this passed in an instant ...
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... followed my sister , and was lucky enough to come up with her directly . ' Now , Pussy , ' I said , ' there is only one thing to be done ; we must leave the fern instantly , before our enemies enter this square . ' Too weary and ...
... followed my sister , and was lucky enough to come up with her directly . ' Now , Pussy , ' I said , ' there is only one thing to be done ; we must leave the fern instantly , before our enemies enter this square . ' Too weary and ...
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