A Storehouse of Stories, Containing: The History of Philip Quarll, Goody Twoshoes. The Governess, Jemima Placid, The Perambulations of a Mouse, The Village School, The Little Queen, History of Little JackCharlotte Mary Yonge Macmillan and Company, 1870 - 437 pages |
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... till hunger waked him in the morning , having dreamt over night of abundance of victuals , which he would fain have come at , but was kept off by a cross cook , who bid him go and fish for some : to which he answered , that he was ...
... till hunger waked him in the morning , having dreamt over night of abundance of victuals , which he would fain have come at , but was kept off by a cross cook , who bid him go and fish for some : to which he answered , that he was ...
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... till they were grown thicker . Having finished the top , he goes about closing the sides ; for which purpose , taking large branches , he strips off their small twigs , and weaves them between the plants as they do for sheep pens , then ...
... till they were grown thicker . Having finished the top , he goes about closing the sides ; for which purpose , taking large branches , he strips off their small twigs , and weaves them between the plants as they do for sheep pens , then ...
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... till the hardness of the weather obliged him to put something on . Having picked up a sufficient quantity of off - sets to stock about two acres of land , he returns home , leaving behind him a considerable number of roots dug up for ...
... till the hardness of the weather obliged him to put something on . Having picked up a sufficient quantity of off - sets to stock about two acres of land , he returns home , leaving behind him a considerable number of roots dug up for ...
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... till he came to the place he had begun his march at , which ended that day's work . Having been round the island , which , to the best of his judgment , was about ten or eleven miles in circumference , of an oblong form , going in and ...
... till he came to the place he had begun his march at , which ended that day's work . Having been round the island , which , to the best of his judgment , was about ten or eleven miles in circumference , of an oblong form , going in and ...
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... till he had got a few oysters , proceeding to grope in holes with his stick as he went on . 6 About forty paces further , he finds a chest in the clift of the rock , which had been washed up there by the violence of the late storm ...
... till he had got a few oysters , proceeding to grope in holes with his stick as he went on . 6 About forty paces further , he finds a chest in the clift of the rock , which had been washed up there by the violence of the late storm ...
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