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... seemed to me , when , having to go to Elmdon again after several years , on coming out from a cutting I found myself passing just below the dear old churchyard , and the great old elms that surrounded it to the south . How well I ...
... seemed to me , when , having to go to Elmdon again after several years , on coming out from a cutting I found myself passing just below the dear old churchyard , and the great old elms that surrounded it to the south . How well I ...
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... seemed to invest each actor in this natural scene with a sort of quaint , familiar personality . " Look there , ” said Bob , " there's a big chub by that bush . I know him . He broke Watson's line one day , and he came and looked at a ...
... seemed to invest each actor in this natural scene with a sort of quaint , familiar personality . " Look there , ” said Bob , " there's a big chub by that bush . I know him . He broke Watson's line one day , and he came and looked at a ...
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... seemed to me so interesting , that after the lads left me for the night , I made notes of it , with the intention of writing it out at length , and as nearly in the words of my godson and his friend as I could , as soon as time and ...
... seemed to me so interesting , that after the lads left me for the night , I made notes of it , with the intention of writing it out at length , and as nearly in the words of my godson and his friend as I could , as soon as time and ...
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... seemed to be quite there , but a little further away . Bob stood by , chuckling , and casting a look up into the sky every minute or two . At last Jack gave it up in despair , but still persisted the bee was there , somewhere . " No ...
... seemed to be quite there , but a little further away . Bob stood by , chuckling , and casting a look up into the sky every minute or two . At last Jack gave it up in despair , but still persisted the bee was there , somewhere . " No ...
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... seemed to recognise Bob , and to be pleased to see him . To him the question was referred as to the origin of the black rabbits . He said that varieties in colour were by no means uncommon among wild rabbits ; that black ones were often ...
... seemed to recognise Bob , and to be pleased to see him . To him the question was referred as to the origin of the black rabbits . He said that varieties in colour were by no means uncommon among wild rabbits ; that black ones were often ...
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