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... told his kind papa he did not wish to spend his Christmas holidays . So he stayed at school all the time , and so instead of spending anything he got a good deal of change . GREEDY JIMMY . Jimmy was a voracious boy . When his uncle John ...
... told his kind papa he did not wish to spend his Christmas holidays . So he stayed at school all the time , and so instead of spending anything he got a good deal of change . GREEDY JIMMY . Jimmy was a voracious boy . When his uncle John ...
Page 101
... told me so - and we were engaged . Then came a person called Lieutenant Crayford whom I knew but slightly . After telling me that he was going to fight the Paynim foe in Central Africa he informed me that he should consider himself ...
... told me so - and we were engaged . Then came a person called Lieutenant Crayford whom I knew but slightly . After telling me that he was going to fight the Paynim foe in Central Africa he informed me that he should consider himself ...
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... told with a graceful elegance and gen- tlemanly fluency , and in a style which seems easy , because the artist knows how to conceal his art . Easy writing is well said to be very hard reading ; easy reading is often the result of hard ...
... told with a graceful elegance and gen- tlemanly fluency , and in a style which seems easy , because the artist knows how to conceal his art . Easy writing is well said to be very hard reading ; easy reading is often the result of hard ...
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