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Page 18
... travellers now returned to the tavern , where they found the breakfast table spread , and a lady and gentleman , whom they had not seen before , just sitting down . John looked upon the table and smacked his lips , as his eyes took an ...
... travellers now returned to the tavern , where they found the breakfast table spread , and a lady and gentleman , whom they had not seen before , just sitting down . John looked upon the table and smacked his lips , as his eyes took an ...
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... travellers now went into the kitchen to get their bread and milk , where they found the tavern - keeper's wife , a very different sort of person from her husband . She was very fat , with a florid com- plexion , and a thick short neck ...
... travellers now went into the kitchen to get their bread and milk , where they found the tavern - keeper's wife , a very different sort of person from her husband . She was very fat , with a florid com- plexion , and a thick short neck ...
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... travellers made a hearty breakfast ; and then the kind- hearted landlady called our hero to her side , and having smoothed down his hair , she gave him a kiss ; and begged him , for her sake , to try and get religion , which he promised ...
... travellers made a hearty breakfast ; and then the kind- hearted landlady called our hero to her side , and having smoothed down his hair , she gave him a kiss ; and begged him , for her sake , to try and get religion , which he promised ...
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... travellers with such force that they thought it was hail . ' Poor Jack ! ' exclaimed Jeremiah , I am afraid you will not be able to bear up under this pelting storm . I do not care for myself ; this cold rain and these rough roads do ...
... travellers with such force that they thought it was hail . ' Poor Jack ! ' exclaimed Jeremiah , I am afraid you will not be able to bear up under this pelting storm . I do not care for myself ; this cold rain and these rough roads do ...
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... travellers that such was the fact . Upon hearing Jeremiah's story , Friend Hogshart , for that was the farmer's name , smoothed down his hair , and hemmed two or three times portentously . • Although we are without money now , ' said ...
... travellers that such was the fact . Upon hearing Jeremiah's story , Friend Hogshart , for that was the farmer's name , smoothed down his hair , and hemmed two or three times portentously . • Although we are without money now , ' said ...
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