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... three- quarters of an hour , doing twice as much damage , and causing the pigs to do three times as much as they would otherwise have done . When the pigs , with a last kick up of their hind legs , cantered grunting into the field again ...
... three- quarters of an hour , doing twice as much damage , and causing the pigs to do three times as much as they would otherwise have done . When the pigs , with a last kick up of their hind legs , cantered grunting into the field again ...
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... three rabbits - they both stopped still when they came to the garden ; Mr. Lisle in horror at the mischief which had been done , and Geoffry with a most uncom- fortable feeling that he had again done wrong . Had they come an hour before ...
... three rabbits - they both stopped still when they came to the garden ; Mr. Lisle in horror at the mischief which had been done , and Geoffry with a most uncom- fortable feeling that he had again done wrong . Had they come an hour before ...
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... three weeks after the pigs had turned volunteer gardeners , Geoffry returned to school full of resolution to be a very good boy , and never to forget any more . Unfortunately , in all these resolves Geoffry left out one thing , —he did ...
... three weeks after the pigs had turned volunteer gardeners , Geoffry returned to school full of resolution to be a very good boy , and never to forget any more . Unfortunately , in all these resolves Geoffry left out one thing , —he did ...
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... Three men who had stayed behind were stretching the ropes on to the wooden pegs . Geoffry went to them , and offered to help , and was very busy laying down wooden planks for seats , and covering them with pieces of car- pet , until he ...
... Three men who had stayed behind were stretching the ropes on to the wooden pegs . Geoffry went to them , and offered to help , and was very busy laying down wooden planks for seats , and covering them with pieces of car- pet , until he ...
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