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... tell me they could never eat the sour , hard fruit of England . However , I hope we shall meet again next year . " The last evening was spent by all the party together , sitting upon the top of a teak - tree , and looking at the purple ...
... tell me they could never eat the sour , hard fruit of England . However , I hope we shall meet again next year . " The last evening was spent by all the party together , sitting upon the top of a teak - tree , and looking at the purple ...
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... tell them they had no right there . Boys used to tease him as they went by , and make him very angry ; so that at one time he never saw a boy with- out beginning to bark , whether he provoked him or not . This was a very bad habit , and ...
... tell them they had no right there . Boys used to tease him as they went by , and make him very angry ; so that at one time he never saw a boy with- out beginning to bark , whether he provoked him or not . This was a very bad habit , and ...
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... A rookery in England , noisy as it is , is nothing to a company of parrots . " Do tell me how your trouble came upon you , " said a newly - arrived bird ; and Poll , for about the hundredth time 24 THE PARROT WHO DID NOT CARE .
... A rookery in England , noisy as it is , is nothing to a company of parrots . " Do tell me how your trouble came upon you , " said a newly - arrived bird ; and Poll , for about the hundredth time 24 THE PARROT WHO DID NOT CARE .
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... house , and when she saw his miserable condi- tion , and heard him tell his story , she cried over him , and said she was sure that he was quite cured of his bad fault by this time , and they must think what could JACK SKIP . 43.
... house , and when she saw his miserable condi- tion , and heard him tell his story , she cried over him , and said she was sure that he was quite cured of his bad fault by this time , and they must think what could JACK SKIP . 43.
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... tell you outside , if you please , sir , " continued the man . His master went out with him , and the servant added , " I went to draw some beer , sir , just now , and knowing exactly where the barrel stood , I did not take a candle ...
... tell you outside , if you please , sir , " continued the man . His master went out with him , and the servant added , " I went to draw some beer , sir , just now , and knowing exactly where the barrel stood , I did not take a candle ...
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AFRICAN WANDERERS ANIMALS asked Author Baakin badger beautiful began birds Bruin cage cloth clover-field coloured covered cows creature cried Curly England Engravings Fair Star fast fastened favourite Fcap fishes Flappet friends frightened garden gate Gazette gilt edges grass Greyskin HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN HARRISON WEIR head heard HISTORY hole horse hyænas Illustrations by JOHN ISAAC TAYLOR Jack JOHN GILBERT kitten knew lamb laughed looked lustration mamma MAMMA'S BIBLE STORIES MARY LAMB masters mice mistress monkeys morning morocco mouth nest never night nose OWEN JONES Paragon parrots Patch Phiz plain Poll poor Price Queen Victoria Reynard round Royal 16mo scream Second Edition shew side sleep Small 4to sure tail tell thing thought told took tree Trump W. H. G. KINGSTON walked walking fish young lady
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