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" I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me... "
Stories of Childhood & Nature - Page 195
by Elizabeth Virginia Brown - 1905
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The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum

150 pages
...directly lo a l'hop where they fold toys for children ; and being charmed with the found of a Whijtle, that I met by the way, in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home, and went whiftling all over the...
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Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, Written ...

Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1793 - 324 pages
...directly to a fhop where they fold toys for children ; and being charmed with •the found of a ivhiftle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one. I then came home, and went whiftling all over the houfe,...
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The New, general and complete weekly magazine; or, entertaining Mercury

302 pages
...direSly to a (hop where they fold toys for children ; and being charmed with the found of a whiftle that I met by the way, in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home, and went whittling all over the...
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The American Preceptor: Being a New Selection of Lessons for Reading and ...

Caleb Bingham - Literature - 1801 - 234 pages
...to a fhop where they fold toys for children ; .and being charmed with the fourui of a Whiftle, which I met by the way, in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered, and gave all my money for one. . 2. I then came home* and went whiftling afl over...
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The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of ..., Volume 1

Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1802 - 454 pages
...directly to a {hop where they fold toys for children; and being charmed with the found of a whi/ile, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one. I then, came home, and went whittling all over the houfe,...
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Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...on a holiday, filled my pocket with halfpence. I went directly towards a shop where toys were sold for children; and being charmed with the sound of...that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for it ; 1 then came home, and went whistling over (he house,...
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The School of Wisdom

Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...dirtctly to a thot, where they ibid toys for children ; and being charmed wi.h the found of a ivh'iftle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered all my money for one. I then came home, and went whiffling all over tha Iui'sfe,...
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Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...child, at seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockeis with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children ; and being charmed with the sound of a whistle, which. 1 saw by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one....
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An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to ...

Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...a shop where they sold toys for children ; and being charmed v/ith the s«und of a < whistle, which I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered, and gave all my money for one. 2. I then came home, and went whistling all ever...
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An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to ...

Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 232 pages
...directly to a (hop where they f"K! toys for children ;and being charmed with the found cf a Whittle, which I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered, and gave all my money for one. 2- I then came home, and went whirling all over...
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