Cornertown Chronicles: New Legends of Old Lore. [With Illustrations.]Griffith and Farran, 1880 - 256 pages |
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... a plentiful crop of clean clothes . Somehow , gardening in Wood Street was not thought genteel , principally , I suppose , because the Meadow Streetites were great gardeners , only they had THE GOLDEN WEDDING , & c . II.
... a plentiful crop of clean clothes . Somehow , gardening in Wood Street was not thought genteel , principally , I suppose , because the Meadow Streetites were great gardeners , only they had THE GOLDEN WEDDING , & c . II.
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... clothes - line , for instance . It was an old one , and hung slack between two posts ; so Netta had fixed a seat of boards on it , and made it into a swing . That was flying - real flying to Netta , for when once she began to swing , it ...
... clothes - line , for instance . It was an old one , and hung slack between two posts ; so Netta had fixed a seat of boards on it , and made it into a swing . That was flying - real flying to Netta , for when once she began to swing , it ...
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... clothes - line ! Netta felt just as much at home in the upper world as the birds did , and yet she never stirred from the back garden . Then there was the well . You went down to it by two steps , and there it lay in an or- namental ...
... clothes - line ! Netta felt just as much at home in the upper world as the birds did , and yet she never stirred from the back garden . Then there was the well . You went down to it by two steps , and there it lay in an or- namental ...
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... each other in earning the money for our wedding- clothes , and making them afterwards , and Fiddy did all she could to pacify her own father because you would not marry her , and to persuade mine 32 CORNERTOWN CHRONICLES .
... each other in earning the money for our wedding- clothes , and making them afterwards , and Fiddy did all she could to pacify her own father because you would not marry her , and to persuade mine 32 CORNERTOWN CHRONICLES .
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... when she came to see us - poor Fiddy , who was so much more lonely and sad than I was , for she had remained an old maid , and all her wedding - clothes were laid away in lavender ; but she never com- C 2 THE GOLDEN WEDDING , & c . 35.
... when she came to see us - poor Fiddy , who was so much more lonely and sad than I was , for she had remained an old maid , and all her wedding - clothes were laid away in lavender ; but she never com- C 2 THE GOLDEN WEDDING , & c . 35.
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