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... Poor Moses did not relish his soubriquet , or his seat , but he had a very thrifty mother , who was a shrew , to boot , and she had no notion of sending any thing good in the upholstery line to be at the mercy of Mrs. Simcoe's scholars ...
... Poor Moses did not relish his soubriquet , or his seat , but he had a very thrifty mother , who was a shrew , to boot , and she had no notion of sending any thing good in the upholstery line to be at the mercy of Mrs. Simcoe's scholars ...
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... poor boy , he strove to his very utmost to master the rebellious letters and figures that danced in hopeless confusion before his dazed eyes by day , and haunted his weary brain by night . " I've spatted his hands , " said Dame Simcoe ...
... poor boy , he strove to his very utmost to master the rebellious letters and figures that danced in hopeless confusion before his dazed eyes by day , and haunted his weary brain by night . " I've spatted his hands , " said Dame Simcoe ...
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... poor Moses . By the aid of a heap of pebbles , and a handful of shells , she explained , in simple fashion , the mysteries of addition , subtraction , and multiplication to Moses , who began dimly to comprehend that two mermaids ...
... poor Moses . By the aid of a heap of pebbles , and a handful of shells , she explained , in simple fashion , the mysteries of addition , subtraction , and multiplication to Moses , who began dimly to comprehend that two mermaids ...
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... poor Polly 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 ...
... poor Polly 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 ...
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... poor little Polly had been got safe out of the pier , and felt an uncomfortable shiver at the thought of her danger ; and from that day their old haunt was abandoned to its early occupants , the mussels and barnacles that hung in thick ...
... poor little Polly had been got safe out of the pier , and felt an uncomfortable shiver at the thought of her danger ; and from that day their old haunt was abandoned to its early occupants , the mussels and barnacles that hung in thick ...
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