Blind man's holiday; or, Short tales for the nursery, by the author of 'Mia and Charlie'.Griffith and Farran, successors to Newbery & Harris, 1860 - 214 pages |
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... little girl , and I think I can tell you quite a new story about something I once saw from there . good many years ago , then , Aunt Helen was a little girl ; she was a very tiresome little girl ; she used to go about from one person to ...
... little girl , and I think I can tell you quite a new story about something I once saw from there . good many years ago , then , Aunt Helen was a little girl ; she was a very tiresome little girl ; she used to go about from one person to ...
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... little Helen looked . I should never have done , if I were to tell you about ' the organ - men , and the monkeys ... child herself ; but she was not a child , for she turned her face towards the window as she passed , and it was an old ...
... little Helen looked . I should never have done , if I were to tell you about ' the organ - men , and the monkeys ... child herself ; but she was not a child , for she turned her face towards the window as she passed , and it was an old ...
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... child would have done - she kept her thoughts in her silly little head , and every afternoon when it grew dusk , she used to climb up to the window , and watch for the tiny woman to come down the street . Sometimes she did not pass ...
... child would have done - she kept her thoughts in her silly little head , and every afternoon when it grew dusk , she used to climb up to the window , and watch for the tiny woman to come down the street . Sometimes she did not pass ...
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... little river at the bottom , which had been swollen all February and March , is now narrow enough for the boys to leap across it , and for the girls ... child is whose birthday falls at the end of April or in the beginning of May , for in his ...
... little river at the bottom , which had been swollen all February and March , is now narrow enough for the boys to leap across it , and for the girls ... child is whose birthday falls at the end of April or in the beginning of May , for in his ...
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... child to peep through . From the time Helen first observed this hole she thought of little else but how she should manage to look through it . What pains she took to heap up stones to stand on , which always tumbled down as fast as she ...
... child to peep through . From the time Helen first observed this hole she thought of little else but how she should manage to look through it . What pains she took to heap up stones to stand on , which always tumbled down as fast as she ...
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