Cousin Trix and Her Welcome TalesGriffith and Farran, successors to Newbery and Harris, corner of St. Paul's Churchyard, 1868 - Children's stories - 272 pages |
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... minutes the children had entirely forgotten how badly used they had been , and were all chattering away like magpies . Except , indeed , that little Mabel sat quieter than she often did ; for , in spite of her lameness , Queen Mab was ...
... minutes the children had entirely forgotten how badly used they had been , and were all chattering away like magpies . Except , indeed , that little Mabel sat quieter than she often did ; for , in spite of her lameness , Queen Mab was ...
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... minutes , that little visit was enough to make all the rest of the day quite bright to Neptune . He lay in his place after his little master had gone , and thought , ' Perhaps he will come back to - morrow ! Who knows but that he may ...
... minutes , that little visit was enough to make all the rest of the day quite bright to Neptune . He lay in his place after his little master had gone , and thought , ' Perhaps he will come back to - morrow ! Who knows but that he may ...
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... minutes , when the sound of some fresh voices made him prick up his ears again , and , getting on his feet , he saw a couple of men , one of whom he did not know , come into the stable - yard , and , which was very strange , come ...
... minutes , when the sound of some fresh voices made him prick up his ears again , and , getting on his feet , he saw a couple of men , one of whom he did not know , come into the stable - yard , and , which was very strange , come ...
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... it all meant , desiring so to do what the men required from him , and failing so entirely , in his utter blindness of mind , to guess what in the world it could be . For several minutes he could not guess it , could 22 COUSIN TRIX .
... it all meant , desiring so to do what the men required from him , and failing so entirely , in his utter blindness of mind , to guess what in the world it could be . For several minutes he could not guess it , could 22 COUSIN TRIX .
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... minutes . Was that right , masters ? With a joyful bark away he scam- pered , looking behind him now and then to call the men on . He was by no means quite sure yet that this was what they really wanted from him ; but it was such a ...
... minutes . Was that right , masters ? With a joyful bark away he scam- pered , looking behind him now and then to call the men on . He was by no means quite sure yet that this was what they really wanted from him ; but it was such a ...
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ABSOLON amusing asked BARBARA HUTTON beautiful began Bertha cloth elegant coloured course creature cried Blue-eyes cried Effie crying Daisy dear delightful door Effie's Engravings exclaimed eyes face fairy-land fancy fast Fcap feel forest Frontispiece gave gilt edges hand happy HARRISON WEIR Harry's head heart hour Illustrations Jack JOHN TIMBS kind King knew lady laughed little Blue-eyes little Effie little Harry live looked Lord Edgar Lords in Waiting minutes morning morocco mother mother-mouse mouse never night once Phiz poor Dwarf poor little pretty Prince Queen Mab replied Blue-eyes replied Cousin Trix Roger round Royal 16mo Second Edition seemed shoes sight sleep Small 4to smile softly soon stable-yard story strange Super-royal 16mo sure talk tell thing THOMAS DARNELL THOMAS HOOD thought three fairies told took Trix's WEIR whole wonderful young
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