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... Scrub and Spare , who followed the cobbler's craft , and had but one stall between them . It was a hut built of clay and wattles . The door was low and always open , for there was no window . The roof did not entirely keep out the rain ...
... Scrub and Spare , who followed the cobbler's craft , and had but one stall between them . It was a hut built of clay and wattles . The door was low and always open , for there was no window . The roof did not entirely keep out the rain ...
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... Scrub and Spare might be found . Spiteful people said there were no shoes so bad that they would not be worse for their mending . Nevertheless Scrub and Spare managed to live between their own trade , a small barley field , and a ...
... Scrub and Spare might be found . Spiteful people said there were no shoes so bad that they would not be worse for their mending . Nevertheless Scrub and Spare managed to live between their own trade , a small barley field , and a ...
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... Scrub ; ' it's not right to chop wood on Christmas ; besides , that root is too hard to be broken with any hatchet . ' 6 " Hard or not we must have a fire , ' replied Spare . Come , brother , help me in with it . Poor as we are , there ...
... Scrub ; ' it's not right to chop wood on Christmas ; besides , that root is too hard to be broken with any hatchet . ' 6 " Hard or not we must have a fire , ' replied Spare . Come , brother , help me in with it . Poor as we are , there ...
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... Scrub , terribly frightened . 666 ' May be not , ' said Spare ; and out of the deep hole at the side which the fire had not reached flew a large grey cuckoo , and lit on the table before them . Much as the cobblers had been surprised ...
... Scrub , terribly frightened . 666 ' May be not , ' said Spare ; and out of the deep hole at the side which the fire had not reached flew a large grey cuckoo , and lit on the table before them . Much as the cobblers had been surprised ...
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... Scrub said he was afraid it wouldn't be lucky ; but as it slept on , and the days passed , he forgot his fears . So the snow melted , the heavy rains . came , the cold grew less , the days lengthened , and one sunny morning the brothers ...
... Scrub said he was afraid it wouldn't be lucky ; but as it slept on , and the days passed , he forgot his fears . So the snow melted , the heavy rains . came , the cold grew less , the days lengthened , and one sunny morning the brothers ...
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