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... eat my dinner to - day for thinking about it . It seems so sad , to have all these nice things , all the great saucers of cream that we have Only for breakfast , and these soft cushions to sleep upon 8 TALES FROM CATLAND .
... eat my dinner to - day for thinking about it . It seems so sad , to have all these nice things , all the great saucers of cream that we have Only for breakfast , and these soft cushions to sleep upon 8 TALES FROM CATLAND .
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... nice ; and she remembered , that once or twice old Bear , the watch - dog , who was chained up in the yard , had said to her , how glad he should be to have something more to eat ; and yet it was very odd , but it had never occurred to ...
... nice ; and she remembered , that once or twice old Bear , the watch - dog , who was chained up in the yard , had said to her , how glad he should be to have something more to eat ; and yet it was very odd , but it had never occurred to ...
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... nice soft warm cushions . Glumdalkin got up later than usual , and looked nearly as cross as when she went to bed ; but she said nothing more about going : and Friskarina took care at breakfast to show her every possible good - natured ...
... nice soft warm cushions . Glumdalkin got up later than usual , and looked nearly as cross as when she went to bed ; but she said nothing more about going : and Friskarina took care at breakfast to show her every possible good - natured ...
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... nice , neat old people lived in them - for , as for the young and healthy , the princess ordered them to go out into the world and earn their own livelihood . " But , did the princess ever get back her fine things ? " Why that is rather ...
... nice , neat old people lived in them - for , as for the young and healthy , the princess ordered them to go out into the world and earn their own livelihood . " But , did the princess ever get back her fine things ? " Why that is rather ...
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... the magpie sadly unsettled the mind of the cat ; more particularly when the magpie related to her how daintily the Countess Von Rustenfustenmustencrustenberg's cat always lived - what nice bits of chicken she dined THE DISCONTENTED CAT .
... the magpie sadly unsettled the mind of the cat ; more particularly when the magpie related to her how daintily the Countess Von Rustenfustenmustencrustenberg's cat always lived - what nice bits of chicken she dined THE DISCONTENTED CAT .
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ABSOLON African Wanderers asleep baron beautiful began birds bone breakfast bright buttered crumpets catch Catland Charlemagne cloth cold coloured Contenta cottage countess countess's cat Cousin Glumdalkin cream curled cushion dear dinner dish door drawing-room dreadfully Edition Engravings Ermengarde exclaimed eyes fairy Fcap fire flew floor Four beautiful Friskarina garden gilt edges going grand palace Grandmagnificolowsky HARRISON WEIR hearth History housekeeper hung Illustrations ISAAC TAYLOR jump kitten ladyship lived looked magpie maids of honour milk minutes mistress morning muddy water never nice night old lady palace peeped pheasants plain poor cat poor Tibb pretty princess QUEEN VICTORIA quietly replied round sate satin saucer seemed silver silver pheasants sitting Small 4to snow snug soft strange supper sure tail things thought took trees velvet Viper wall warm wasp window wish Wishie Wishie's wonderful wretched young
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