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... piece of good fortune did come about , and these poor little creatures really had a whole penny they could call their own , oh , how difficult it was to spend it ! How much they wanted for it ! and what a business it was TALES OF THE ...
... piece of good fortune did come about , and these poor little creatures really had a whole penny they could call their own , oh , how difficult it was to spend it ! How much they wanted for it ! and what a business it was TALES OF THE ...
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... all the voices talking in their loudest keys at once , or else would have expected to be torn in pieces by all the eager hands that clung to him and pulled him about . I think Papa and Mamma , and Uncle Gee too 66 TALES OF THE TOYS .
... all the voices talking in their loudest keys at once , or else would have expected to be torn in pieces by all the eager hands that clung to him and pulled him about . I think Papa and Mamma , and Uncle Gee too 66 TALES OF THE TOYS .
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... piece of string , provided for the tail with its cross pieces of paper to serve as light weights , and they were now busily snip- ping some very fine red paper Mamma had routed out from amongst her hoards for them , in order to make a ...
... piece of string , provided for the tail with its cross pieces of paper to serve as light weights , and they were now busily snip- ping some very fine red paper Mamma had routed out from amongst her hoards for them , in order to make a ...
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... piece will make the doll a very grand bodice , " said Edith ; " the pale blue suits her complexion , don't you think so , Maddy ? That is a piece of my last year's sash . " And so they chatted and worked , till I was ner . attired in a ...
... piece will make the doll a very grand bodice , " said Edith ; " the pale blue suits her complexion , don't you think so , Maddy ? That is a piece of my last year's sash . " And so they chatted and worked , till I was ner . attired in a ...
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... pieces by a fall down stairs . From that time my degradation com- menced , and my daily existence was a miserable series of petty tortures , such as the ingenuity of a boy could alone devise . I was now the helpless and defenceless prey ...
... pieces by a fall down stairs . From that time my degradation com- menced , and my daily existence was a miserable series of petty tortures , such as the ingenuity of a boy could alone devise . I was now the helpless and defenceless prey ...
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