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... TWADDLE , come and say your tables . I won't hear you any more , Moses . I've tried you three or four times already . I only wonder you're not ashamed of yourself , a big boy like you , not to know four fours . Why , here's Polly Twaddle ...
... TWADDLE , come and say your tables . I won't hear you any more , Moses . I've tried you three or four times already . I only wonder you're not ashamed of yourself , a big boy like you , not to know four fours . Why , here's Polly Twaddle ...
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... Twaddle had wit- nessed the whole scene , and her warm child's heart , touched by his distress , sidled up to Moses , and offered him her little stool . Moses smiled for a moment at the short - legged , low throne offered to his ...
... Twaddle had wit- nessed the whole scene , and her warm child's heart , touched by his distress , sidled up to Moses , and offered him her little stool . Moses smiled for a moment at the short - legged , low throne offered to his ...
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... vigorous thwacks from the yard measure , that drove poor persecuted Moses ( whose name should have been Job ) out from his home , to pour forth all his sorrows and bewailings into the pitiful ears of Polly Twaddle , Polly's Pupil . 7.
... vigorous thwacks from the yard measure , that drove poor persecuted Moses ( whose name should have been Job ) out from his home , to pour forth all his sorrows and bewailings into the pitiful ears of Polly Twaddle , Polly's Pupil . 7.
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Frances Freeling Broderip. and bewailings into the pitiful ears of Polly Twaddle , who washed his face in a rock pool , and dried it with her dimity pocket , as they sat in their usual secret refuge , under the great piles on which the ...
Frances Freeling Broderip. and bewailings into the pitiful ears of Polly Twaddle , who washed his face in a rock pool , and dried it with her dimity pocket , as they sat in their usual secret refuge , under the great piles on which the ...
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... Twaddle sat down to bewail her condition . But she was not a silly , helpless girl , content with wringing her hands and sobbing . After she had exhausted all her ideas of her mother's wrath , and terrified search , her own possible ...
... Twaddle sat down to bewail her condition . But she was not a silly , helpless girl , content with wringing her hands and sobbing . After she had exhausted all her ideas of her mother's wrath , and terrified search , her own possible ...
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