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... watch him , but soon ran after her aunt and said , " Aunt Jane , what is the gardener doing , putting little things that look like shot and dust and bits of straw into the ground , and cover- ing them up , and marking where he has put ...
... watch him , but soon ran after her aunt and said , " Aunt Jane , what is the gardener doing , putting little things that look like shot and dust and bits of straw into the ground , and cover- ing them up , and marking where he has put ...
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... watch the growth of a plant with all its delicate structure from a little seed than to mark the path of the heavenly bodies ; their grandeur seems to overwhelm me ; I feel when gazing at them as if thrown at a distance from their Maker ...
... watch the growth of a plant with all its delicate structure from a little seed than to mark the path of the heavenly bodies ; their grandeur seems to overwhelm me ; I feel when gazing at them as if thrown at a distance from their Maker ...
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... watch over her boys . The baby went for two years to its grandmother , and then did this child of ten years old most religiously obey her mother ; she made a comfortable home for her father , when he was at home , which was only at his ...
... watch over her boys . The baby went for two years to its grandmother , and then did this child of ten years old most religiously obey her mother ; she made a comfortable home for her father , when he was at home , which was only at his ...
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... watch that little seed sprouting , and the tiny plant coming out of it ; and do we not like to watch that poor boy , smiling and looking so happy in spite of his pain , and loving his sister so much , and bearing his trouble so ...
... watch that little seed sprouting , and the tiny plant coming out of it ; and do we not like to watch that poor boy , smiling and looking so happy in spite of his pain , and loving his sister so much , and bearing his trouble so ...
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... heroine in suffering . It is an instructive lesson to watch her hands con- stantly employed , and her eye ever on what is going on around her . " · " But what has become of her little bro- thers 40 COUNTRY PLEASURES .
... heroine in suffering . It is an instructive lesson to watch her hands con- stantly employed , and her eye ever on what is going on around her . " · " But what has become of her little bro- thers 40 COUNTRY PLEASURES .
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