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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... pleasant day that is when they are allowed for the first time to go out after tea and play in the garden till bed - time ! How glad they are when they may run and look for cowslips in the meadow behind the house , and when they find ...
... pleasant day that is when they are allowed for the first time to go out after tea and play in the garden till bed - time ! How glad they are when they may run and look for cowslips in the meadow behind the house , and when they find ...
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... pleasant time . At least , I know that it was not a happy time to little Helen , and I think I can ex- plain to you better than any one else , why she did not like it . I can remember very well how hot and dusty and tiring the streets ...
... pleasant time . At least , I know that it was not a happy time to little Helen , and I think I can ex- plain to you better than any one else , why she did not like it . I can remember very well how hot and dusty and tiring the streets ...
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... pleasant to have your hand held tightly on a hot day , and not to be able to walk quickly or slowly , or stop to look about you when you like . The smell of the paint made Helen's head ache , and when she passed the corner of a narrow ...
... pleasant to have your hand held tightly on a hot day , and not to be able to walk quickly or slowly , or stop to look about you when you like . The smell of the paint made Helen's head ache , and when she passed the corner of a narrow ...
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... pleasant was to follow she did not mind it much . She put her head down on Nurse Bream's lap , and by the time she had said the alphabet backwards ten times , a great deal of hair had been pulled out of her head , her neck and her ...
... pleasant was to follow she did not mind it much . She put her head down on Nurse Bream's lap , and by the time she had said the alphabet backwards ten times , a great deal of hair had been pulled out of her head , her neck and her ...
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... pleasant sights would have comforted Helen if she had not seen that Fee - Fo - Fum was moving slowly about the place , peering here and looking there , as if he were preparing to do something . First he took down a white basin from a ...
... pleasant sights would have comforted Helen if she had not seen that Fee - Fo - Fum was moving slowly about the place , peering here and looking there , as if he were preparing to do something . First he took down a white basin from a ...
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